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Astronomie
Comet
C/1999 H1 (Lee)
Steven Lee's comet
discovery in 1999.
Jonathan
Shanklin (Cambridge, England)
The director of the
British Astronomical Association's Comets Section and runs its website. As a
scientist with the British Antarctic Survey, he co-discovered the Antarctic
ozone hole.
Maik
Meyer (Kelkheim, Hesse, Deutschland)
The Catalogue of Comet
Discoveries. Includes recent comet news, his own discoveries, etc.
Syuichi
Nakano (Sumoto, Japan)
Nakano's notes,
containing orbital calculations of comets. Another page of his is Yamamoto
Circulars, containing
news of comets (in Japanese).
Sebastian
F. Hönig (Dossenheim, Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland)
Great German
astronomer, having discovered comet C/2002 O4, the first comet discovered in the
night sky by a German since 1946. His web includes his own discoveries and
information on SOHO comets.
Seiichi
Yoshida (Japan)
Great
information on comets. A great site indeed!
Shigeki
Murakami (Shiga, Japan)
The discover of
comet C/2002 E2
(Snyder-Murakami). Active Japanese comet hunter.
Tsutomu
Seki (Kochi, Japan)
One of the greatest comet
hunters in the world. Has discovered six comets in the night sky including the
most spectacular one C/1965 S1 (Ikeya-Seki), recovered 28 periodic comets,
discovered over 200 asteroids.
VdS
Fachgruppe Kometen
The homepage of the
German amateur comet observers.
Vello
Tabur
Discover of the night sky
comets C/1996 Q1, C/1997 N1 and C/2003 T3. Active in hunting for novae and
observing variable stars.
NRL
LASCO realtime images
Where
to download the SOHO images. Often update quicker than the NASA ones (not always
certainly).
NASA
SOHO realtime images
Another place to download
the images of C2 and C3 coronagraphs. Other cameras included.
STEREO
Science Center
Archive for STEREO
telemetry, mission support data, and higher level instrument data.
STEREO/SECCHI Images
Where to download the STEREO/SECCHI images in fts format. Process needed.
SECCHI Images
Where to download the STEREO images in png format.
The
SOHO/STEREO Sungrazer Website
Includes the Recent Claims
page, Confirmations, Sungrazer report page, Astrometry, as well as tables of all
SOHO/STEREO comets and other sungrazing ones.
U.S.
Naval Research Laboratory LASCO Site
Includes realtime
black-and-white images, and also the archival images like Solwind ones.
Yahoo
Sohohunter Mailing List
SOHO comet hunters' forum
online.
Yahoo
Stereohunter Mailing List
STEREO comet hunters' forum
online.
Alan Watson (Melbourne,
Australia)
First person to discover a STEREO comet in
STEREO/SECCHI images.
Dave
Evans (Birmingham, England)
"Dave's Virtual
Sungrazer Observatory"
David
Johnson (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
The discoverer of
comet SOHO-350, found on September 10, 2001.
Heiner
Otterstedt (Otterstedt, Deutschland)
Has a gift for Non-Kreutz
group comet in C3 images.
Michael
Oates (Manchester, England)
Pioneered searching of
comets in
archival SOHO images.
Mike
Boschat (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada)
Information on his 60 SOHO
comet discoveries, meteors, satellites, etc.
Rainer
Kracht (Elmshorn, Schleswig-Holstein, Deutschland)
The
leader in SOHO. The
discover of the two new comet groups called Kracht-Ⅰ
and Kracht-Ⅱ.
Steve
Farmer, Jr. (Ty Ty, Georgia, USA)
Contains information on
SOHO and night sky comets and asteroids observed from his own Red Barn
Observatory.
Terry
Lovejoy (Queensland, Australia)
The first amateur to find
comets in SOHO data.
Active in comet observations of course.
Toni
Scarmato (San Costantino di Briatico, Calabria, Italy)
The
discoverer of SOHO-1000!
Includes his own SOHO discoveries, photos and animations of comets, asteroids,
and variable stars.
Tony
Hoffman (New York, USA)
One of the most successful
SOHO comet hunters in the world. A friendly person indeed.
Xavier
Leprette (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France)
With 100 SOHO comet
discoveries, he is one of the most successful SOHO comet hunters. His webpage is
in French (Français).
Chinese
Xing
Gao (Urumqi, Xinjiang)
高兴, 新疆乌鲁木齐.
An observer of
the Xingming Observatory, Mt. Nanshan (Code: C42) as well as a teacher of a
middle school.
Quanzhi
Ye (Guangzhou)
叶泉志, 广东广州.
A student, my friend as well, active in
comet, asteroid, and meteor observation. Now he's going with the LUSS (Lulin Sky
Survey).
XingMing
Zhou (Bole, Xinjiang)
周兴明, 新疆博乐.
The Silk Road Astronomy
pages (in Chinese). Information on comets (SOHO and night sky), meteors, aurora,
recording his own observing diaries. He discovered 63 SOHO comets and one SWAN
comet, and made independent discoveries of some night sky comets. Tragically,
he died on August 5, 2004, due to a motorcycle accident on his way back to the
hometown. His spirit is
still staying with us, forever.
LONEOS (The Lowell Observatory Near-Earth Object Search)
Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) Home Page