Re: Planet X: MAY Coordinates

In Article <xXlJ6.99$qa5.993@read1> Steve Havas wrote:
> In the end I'm some faceless guy who went down to my
> local observatory, got the operator to move the telescope
> to those zeta's coordinates (with some difficulty) and
> reported what I saw.

In Article <pIqJ6.109$qa5.1106@read1> Steve Havas wrote:
> I did not realize so many amateurs had 18" telescopes
> and the apparent ease of which any dim, diffuse
> magnitude 11 object can be seen. ...  Surely I was
> mistaken - it was probably just a bug that was on the
> eyepiece.

And ZOOMED, as observatory scopes can do, magnifying an object now
smaller than Pluto when viewed from Earth at this time.  The same bug
smudge must also have been on the lense at Lowel and Neuchatel, I
presume, coincidentally.  What these folks described was consistent with
a smoldering brown dwarf, which Planet X is.  Magnified by the “zoom”
observatory scopes provide to be big enough to see.  NOT in the star
charts, as confirmed by all three sightings.  MOVING according to the
Zeta coordinates.

Neuchatal Feb 7, 2001
    The Neuchatel observatory got it. They are very excited,
    wondering if it is a comet or a brown dwarf, through the
    latest coordinates you gave. I'm going to ask for further
    details. The daughter of the astronomer reports that they
    suspect a comet or a brown dwarf on the process to
    become a pulsar since it emits "waves".

Lowell April 4, 2001
    He opened up the McAllister telescope, a newer but smaller
    scope with a 16" mirror (f3 primary, f18 system, built in
    1963). We trained the big do-hickey on the Coordinates
    given for April 1 2001: ... Lo and behold, there appeared a
    faint blip not too far off center. ... The operator described
    the object as diffuse and of approximate magnitude 11. ...
    I asked the telescope operator if he thought it looked
    reddish and he said he didn't think we'd be able to see any
    color. I don't know if he meant that the lack of color was a
    limitation of the McAllister scope or of the faint, diffuse
    object itself.

Gordon MacMillan April 8, 2001
    Near the center I see nothing that I think looks like the 12th
    (just a couple stars) but at the very top right corner if I moved my
    head I could see what appeared to be a darkish, diffuse, round
    spot, fairly large.