The Archive of the Amateur Observation Network of the International Halley Watch

Author:: Edberg, Stephen J.
Published:: Feb. 09, 1996.
Physical Description:: 1 electronic document

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The International Halley Watch (IHW) was organized for the purpose of gathering and archiving the most complete record of the apparition of a comet, Comet Halley (1982i = 1986 III = 1P/Halley), ever compiled. The redirection of the International Cometary Explorer (ICE), toward Comet Giacobini-Zinner (1984e = 1985 XIII = 21P/Giacobini-Zinner) prompted the initiation of a formal watch on that comet. All the data collected on P/Giacobini-Zinner and P/Halley have been published on CD-ROM in the Comet Halley Archive. This document contains a printed version of the archive data, collected by amateur astronomers, on these two comets. Volume 1 contains the Comet Giacobini-Zinner data archive and Volume 2 contains the Comet Halley archive. Both volumes include information on how to read the data in both archives, as well as a history of both comet watches (including the organizing of the network of astronomers and lessons learned from that experience).

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Astronomy

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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.

Note:

Document ID: 19970037542.
Accession ID: 97N30986.
JPL-Publ-96-3-Vol-1.
NASA/CR-96-112585-Vol-1.
NAS 1.26:112585-Vol-1.

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