I walked outside during my 8:00 break at work and I was able to see the comet in some 7x35 bino's fairly easily, the tail is longer than I had expected and the head seemed fairly small, all this despite it being about 1 degree above a parking lot light. This was my first view of it, I had tried on Sunday to see it but it was either too low by the time I went out or it was blocked by my neighbors house, or clouds. I hope to be able to take my 15x70 bino's on my tripod for others to view sometime this week. If it passes close to M-31 like Patrick says, I might just have to take some time off to get some shots from a darker site than downtown SLC.;-) Howard
Joe Borgione wrote:
Just got back in from viewing the comet. Had a pretty good look at it for about an hour starting about 7:15 or so till about 8:30. It has such a blue hue ; really pretty, with a great shape to the tail. I did my observing from my east side Salt Lake county neighborhood with binoculars;
Pretty wasn't it. I had a little refractor on it and had some trouble making out the tail. Guess I should have started this hobby when I had younger eyes.
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