Confirmations for Sept/Oct 2021
Hi All,
It has been a while since I was able to post any of these, first because we had no website for nearly two months, and second because it has taken me nearly another month to catch up with everything else because of the website problem... So again I will thank you all for your patience and understanding while the site was out of action. The fact is, this project is only funded enough for part of one person's time (me), and only enough to make the measurements, confirmations, and a tiny bit of science on the side. We don't have nearly enough budget to maintain a web developer, and when things go wrong it is often up to us (me again) to fix them.
Thankfully you all have created a wonderful community, and I sincerely appreciate how flexible and adaptable you are when things don't go to plan. The groups.io page was invaluable during that period, and again I'll thank Alan Watson for maintaining that for us.
Anyway, on to confirmations! This was obviously much more complicated because reports were sent to me in a combination of email and group reports. Thankfully Robert very kindly has been keeping track of the groups reports, and that has made it much easier for me to track new comets. That said... there may be some mistakes and/or missed comets in these. If so, that's my error and please let me know so I can take a look. Also, please note that some of the confirmed comets are from emails that were sent to me rather than groups.io reports. Because of all this confusion, I have been much more lenient in applying the "timing" rules for reports, because there are often delays in messages posting, emails being received by servers, etc. I'm not going to explain my ruling on each individual comet here, but you can always contact me with questions.
So here's what I've got:
4273 Aug31,21 10:53:04 W.Boonplod C2,C3 Meyer Aug31,21 4274 Sep02,21 18:03:46 W.Boonplod C2 NonGrp Sep02,21 4275 Sep11,21 06:30:01 W.Boonplod H1,C3 Kreutz Sep11,21 4276 Sep11,21 09:41:12 W.Boonplod C2 NonGrp Sep11,21 4277 Sep11,21 19:27:22 M.Uchina H1,C3 Kreutz Sep11-12,21 4278 Sep12,21 13:26:25 W.Boonplod H1,C3,C2 Kreutz Sep12-13,21 4279 Sep15,21 19:44:03 W.Boonplod H1,C3 Kreutz Sep15-16,21 4280 Sep18,21 06:25:38 W.Boonplod H1,C3 Kreutz Sep18,21 4281 Sep30,21 11:34:07 W.Boonplod H1,C3,C2 Kreutz Sep30-Oct01,21 4282 Oct02,21 10:04:23 P.Sun H1,C3 Kreutz Oct01-03,21 4283* Oct07,21 05:56pm W.Boonplod H1,C3,C2 Kreutz Oct07-08,21 4284* Oct07,21 08:35pm W.Boonplod C2 Kreutz Oct07,21 4285* Oct11,21 11:42am Z.Yang H1,C2 Kreutz Oct10-11,21 4286* Oct13,21 02:32am Z.Yang H1,C2 Kreutz Oct12-13,21 4287* Oct13,21 06:20pm W.Boonplod H1,C3,C2 Kreutz Oct13,21 4288* Oct15,21 12:07pm W.Boonplod H1,C3,C2 Kreutz Oct15,21 4289* Oct15,21 04:53pm M.Uchina H1,C3,C2 Kreutz Oct15,21 4290* Oct16,21 08:19am Biesiada/Uchina H1,C2 Kreutz Oct16,21 4291* Oct18,21 06:55am Biesiada/Yang H1,C2 Kreutz Oct17-18,21 4292* Oct19,21 11:24am W.Boonplod H1,C3,C2 Kreutz Oct19,21 4293* Oct19,21 04:44pm W.Boonplod C2 Kreutz Oct19,21 4294* Oct22,21 03:49am Pickard/Biesiada H1,C2 Kreutz Oct21-22,21 4295* Oct22,21 05:14pm R.Pickard H1,C2 Kreutz Oct22,21 4296* Oct27,21 03:51am R.Pickard H1,C3,C2 Kreutz Oct26-27,21 4297* Oct27,21 10:52am Z.Yang H1,C3 Kreutz Oct27,21 4298 Oct27,21 10:43:35 Liwo/Ruan C2 Kreutz Oct27,21 4299* Oct27,21 02:53pm R.Pickard C2 Kreutz Oct27,21 4300* Oct30,21 07:43am Uchina/Biros C2 Kreutz Oct30,21
Objects marked with an asterisk (*) are reports made by email or on the groups chat page. For convenience, I'll post the links to the relevant reports here:
4283: https://sungrazer.groups.io/g/SOHO/message/4974
4284: https://sungrazer.groups.io/g/SOHO/message/4979
4285: https://sungrazer.groups.io/g/SOHO/message/4998
4286: https://sungrazer.groups.io/g/SOHO/message/5003
4287: https://sungrazer.groups.io/g/SOHO/message/5007
4288: https://sungrazer.groups.io/g/SOHO/message/5023
4289: Email
4290: https://sungrazer.groups.io/g/SOHO/message/5048 & Email
4291: https://sungrazer.groups.io/g/SOHO/message/5062
4292: https://sungrazer.groups.io/g/SOHO/message/5072
4293: https://sungrazer.groups.io/g/SOHO/message/5083
4294: https://sungrazer.groups.io/g/SOHO/message/5096
4295: https://sungrazer.groups.io/g/SOHO/message/5104
4296: https://sungrazer.groups.io/g/SOHO/message/5150
4297: https://sungrazer.groups.io/g/SOHO/message/5154
4299: https://sungrazer.groups.io/g/SOHO/message/5165
4300: https://sungrazer.groups.io/g/SOHO/message/5199
I think I checked every report that was emailed to me, but if you want me to take a second look at anything, please let me know.
I will get into November confirmations next week, and will try to complete December confirmations in the first week of January.
Karl
PS: Welcome back Zesheng and Jiangao! It's good to see you both comet hunting again!