USAF record 302545144

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• Page 1 PROJECT 10073 RECORD 1. DATE - TIME GROUP October 65 2. LOCATION Northern Hemisphere 3. SOURCE Multiple 4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS One 5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION N/A 6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground-Visual 7.…
• Page 2 Early-Morning Rising Necessary Newly-Sighted Comet Visible Here The newly-discovered Bow- Seki comet, named for two Japanese astronomers who first sighted it in September, has been sighted and…
• Page 3 MEMO FOR THE RECORD Mrs. [REDACTED] called 20 Oct 65 regarding the coast which supposedly can be seen at the present time. Sgt. Moody said that it is difficult to be seen because of the weather. It…
• Page 4 Comet Ikeya-Seki PROBABLY PLACED observers on October 2021 viewed a comet so brilliant that it could be seen without a telescope in the daytime. The sun was hidden behind the side of a house or even…
• Page 5 The motion of Comet Ikeya-Seki within 67 minutes is evident in these daytime pictures taken October 21st in Japan, at Tokyo Observatory's Norikura solar station, 9,400 feet high. The sun is below the…
• Page 6 For this 41-minute exposure on October 6th, G. Capen and J. Young at Table Mountain Observatory used a telescope to observe Comet Ikeya-Seki, especially from the Northern Hemisphere. Even in the…
• Page 7 Daytime drawings by Gerard de Vore conducted at McDonald Observatory. Right: October 20, 22:30 UT with the 4-inch finder of the 36-inch telescope. Left: October 21st, 16:00 with the 4-inch finder of…
• Page 8 The comet's nucleus appeared elongated on November 5th (top) and definitely split the next day. A few separate condensations were seen along a 30-second arc. (See a picture of them in February, 1980,…
• Page 9 This unusual photograph of Comet Ikeya-Seki (1960) was taken by Alan McClure on the morning of November 1, 1965. It is an Heliostone exposure begun at 12:43 Universal time. Well seen here on a large…
• Page 10 Photographs of Comet Ikeya-Seki These few pages of Comet Ikeya-Seki photographs record its changing appearance during the two weeks following perihelion at 130 million miles. However, only a small…