CometWatch Ep011 – Cometbase

On the 31st of January two members of CometBase, Kirill Grishin & Taras Pristavskiy, team were interviewed by Neil Norman, Mary Spicer & Nick Evetts.
The great diversity of topics connected with CometBase was touched, not only results of previous year, also plans for future were discussed.

 

Happy New Year 2016!

New photogallery uploader

We’re glad to announce that starting today you all have a great opportunity to upload your images to CometBase! New Image Uploader Tool is much faster and more reliable than the old one so each user can easily share his comet images.

CCD/DSLR observations start

Dear colleagues,
We’re happy to present a CCD observations module, we’ve been working on since April.

This module allows an observer to submit his CCD and DSLR observations both. As these types of observations have differences they’re marked in the final report as “CCD” and “DSLR” respectively.

CCD observations module release - 15 October 2015

Dear colleagues! Since April we have been developing the new large module for CCD observations submitting ,and very soon (15th of October) we will be introducing this module for public usage. Now we'd like to describe this module.

Coma condensation diagrams

From today a coma condensation diagrams can be created in “CometBase”.

April 2015 - Statistics

Database press release devoted to the statistics in March, 2015. 1432 observations were added during the last month to the database (+ 17.5 %). C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) has become the most popular comet again. 143 observations of this comet were added (+ 20.4 %). There were much less observations of comet C/2007 W1 (Boattini) made in the year 2008 - 103 (+ 312 %).

Program of adding observer`s archives

A lot of observers have large archives of their own observations, but these data are usually a kind of  dust on the shelves, because it takes a lot of time to add so many observations manually. That`s why we can help you to upload all your observations. If you are going to take part in this program you may send us your observations in any suitable format and we`ll upload them soon.

If you have observations in .txt format or any other text file, you can send this file to us. If you have observations only in diary of observations, you can just send us scanned pages.

If you have observations in ICQ format, you may kindly upload them by yourself in your private cabinet:
"Observations" (blue label) ->"Import observations in ICQ" of  "Upload file in ICQ format" both in right menu.

March 2015 - Statistics

February 2015 - Statistics

The first version of API of CometBase

Happy New 2015 Year

CometBase light curves now show elongation of comets!

First version of the Scheduler is available for use