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The comet was first photographed by astronomer Lin Chi-Sheng (林啟生) with a 0.41-metre (16 in) telescope at the Lulin Observatory in Nantou, Taiwan on July 11, 2007. . However, it was the 19-year-old Ye Quanzhi (葉泉志) from Sun Yat-sen University in China, who identified the new object from three of the photographs taken by Lin
The Lulin Observatory (Chinese: 鹿林天文台; pinyin: Lùlín Tiānwéntái; lit. 'Deer Forest Astronomical Observatory', obs. code : D35 ) is an astronomical observatory operated by the Institute of Astronomy, National Central University in Taiwan .
C/2008 T2 (Cardinal), is a non-periodic comet. It was discovered by Rob. D. Cardinal from the University of Calgary. [1] [4] [5] It was visible as a telescopic and binocular object during 2009. [5] [6] It passed near the Perseus star clusters NGC 1528 on March 15 and NGC 1545 on March 17, 2009. [7]
A sky chart showing the location of Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) throughout January. (NASA) The easiest time to see the comet will be during the second weekend of February as it passes incredibly close ...
In comet nomenclature, the letter before the "/" is either "C" (a non-periodic comet), "P" (a periodic comet), "D" (a comet that has been lost or has disintegrated), "X" (a comet for which no reliable orbit could be calculated —usually historical comets), "I" for an interstellar object, or "A" for an object that was either mistakenly ...
c. 300 BC — star catalog of Timocharis of Alexandria; c. 134 BC — Hipparchus makes a detailed star map; c. 150 — Ptolemy completes his Almagest, which contains a catalog of stars, observations of planetary motions, and treatises on geometry and cosmology; c. 705 — Dunhuang Star Chart, a manuscript star chart from the Mogao Caves at Dunhuang
Star Chart 清蒙文石刻(欽天監繪製天文圖) in Mongolia: 1727–1732: 1550 stars grouped into 270 starisms. - Japanese Edo period Star Chart 天経或問註解図巻 下: 入江脩敬: 1750-- Reproduction of an ancient device 璇璣玉衡: Dai Zhen: 1723–1777 AD: based on ancient record and his own interpretation - Rock Star Chart ...
145523 Lulin, provisional designation 2006 EM 67, is a background asteroid from the central region of the asteroid belt, approximately 3.9 kilometers (2.4 miles) in diameter. It was discovered on 7 March 2006, by Taiwanese astronomers Hung-Chin Lin (林宏欽) and Ye Quanzhi (葉泉志) at Lulin Observatory in central Taiwan. [ 1 ]