On June 1st we will have completed 3 years of our REA's Comet Homepage . Let's see what happened during the last year:

        During the period  from June 2002 until May 2003 the REA Comet Section received 147 observations from 15 observers. We had a decrease of 54.6% in number of registrations (See  Report 2001/2002). This decrease is due to not favorable passages of bright comets in the Southern Hemisphere.  Comet C/2002V1 remained 1 (one) month without being observed, its localization was not favorable for Brazilian observers. The same thing happened with  C/2002X5 that only was observed after its perihelion and even so lost its  brightness very fast. Even C/2002Y1 reached maximum brightness in a non favorable position for Brazilians and at the present moment is only visible early in the morning when few observers  have time  to observe. Even so  it is praise worthy for all the colleagues that accompanied these 3 comets.
       And this year a special gift by the co-discovery  of Comet C/2002Y1  by our colleague and collaborator Paulo Holvorcem. It was the first time that a comet received the name of a Brazilian. See details in "Descoberta de Cometas por Observadores Brasileiros".

        Concerning  our Picture Gallery  the REA Comet Section  received 22 images (including photos, CCD images and drawings) . We thank all of you for the beautiful work. Below follows a  the report of visual observations made  from June 2002 to May 2003 including which of the comets each observer took part with his registration, and the total of observations for each comet.

cod name              obs 29P 53P 65P 116P 154P 01HT50 01RX14 02C1 02O6 02O7 02V1 02X5 02Y1

AMO Alexandre Amorim   66  1            8    1     7      2     3    5        20    4   15  FHC Fabio H. Carvalho   7                                                      7  FHD Felipe Hodar       11  3                                    5    3  FPV Frederico Paiva     8                                       2    4              2  JGA José Guilherme     10                                 1     1              1    7  JHD Juan Hodar          2                                                      2  JSA José Augustoni      3                                                      2    1  MGA Margarete J.Amorim  1                                                           1  NTF N.T.Frota           4                                                      1    1    2  PGZ Piotr Guzik         6  1   1   1    1                 1               1  RGR Rosely Grégio       1                                            1  RGT Rodrigo Tavares     1                                                           1  RYU Raquel Yumi         1                                                      1  WLS Willian Souza      19                                 1     1    6         6    4    1  WSA Wesley Araújo       7                                                      6    1

Total                 147  5   1   1    9    1     7      5    12   19    1   46   22   18

 

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             Congratulation to all of you that helped us with one more year of service.
             Thanks to Helga Szmuk for this translation.

    Alexandre Amorim
    REA Comet Section  -  June 1st, 2003