Projects and Publications

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Publications (mostly in German)

Common publications

• Der Schweifstern - The journal of our group informs the reader 4 time a year about all current comets.
• Uwe Pilz, Der Kondensationsgrad von Kometen [Degree of condensation (DC)] (2016)
• Thomas Lehmann: DSLR-Fotometrie von Kometen (2015)
• U. Pilz, B. Leitner: Kometen - eine Einführung für Hobby-Astronomen (Book, 2013)
• F.W. Gerber, Uwe Pilz: Beobachtungen heller Kometen [Observation of bright comets] (2013)
• F.W. Gerber, Visuelle Spektralbeobachtungen von Kometen [Visual spectroscopy of comets] (2013)
• Stefan Beck: Digitale Bildbearbeitung für Kometen. Es gibt einen Direktlink und Übungsbilder. [Digital image processing of comets] (2012)
• U. Pilz, M. Achternbosch: Bestimmung der Gas- und Staubproduktion [Calculation of gas and dust production rates] (2012)
• U. Pilz, B. Häusler: Elektronische Photometrie heller Kometen - der Parameter Afρ [CCD photometry and the value Afρ] (2011)
• U. Pilz, B. Häusler: Visuelle und CCD-Photometrie von Kometen: Die Multiapertur-Methode [Visual like m1 values from CCD measurements] (2011)
• A. Kammerer, M. Kretlow: Kometen beobachten, Book project, 17 MByte! (2010).

Single Comets

• Uwe Pilz, ISON's remnant: What can we expect to see ift the earth crosses the orbital plane?
  
• Uwe Pilz, Three phases model of comet ISON's lightcurve
  
• Uwe Pilz: C/2011 L4 (PanSTARRS), Analysis of the dust tail (2013)
• Uwe Pilz: C/2011 L4 (PanSTARRS), Simulation of the dust tail (illustrations) (2013)
• Andreas Schnabel: Infoblatt für den Kometen C/2011 L4 (PanSTARRS) [info sheet] (2013)
• F.W. Gerber Spektroskopische Beobachtungen des Kometen Hyakutake [Spectroscopic observations of C/1996 B2] (1996, 2013)
• U. Pilz: Gas production and chemical composition of selected comets  (2009)
• F.W. Gerber: C/2006 P1 (McNaught) am Taghimmel [McNaught in broad daylight] (2007)
• A. Kammerer:The tail of Comet C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) (2000)
• A. Kammerer: The search for the "lost" comet P/Pons-Gambart (1997)

European Comet Conference 2015 / Ondrejov: Lectures of the German group

• Daniel Fischer: The quest for the ultimate image of the Eclipse Comet of 1948
• Sergei Schmalz: Comets in digital plate archives on the example of APPLAUSE database
• Thomas Lehmann: Total Comet magnitudes from CCD/DSLR photometry
• Uwe Pilz: Dust tail simulation
• Uwe Pilz: Kphot review

Software

• AirTools, comet photometry using an aperture of the real coma diameter (Thomas Lehmann, in German)
• ICQFormat – Software for submitting of photometric data in ICQ format.
• cmtTail – Software for simulating dust tail. Please read 00readme.txt which is in German: Sorry.