I located the comet without too much trouble last night in my 9x63's, barely visible as an averted-vision smudge in a very light-polluted sky (my back yard in Lindon). Probably an easy target under dark skies. --- Canopus56 <canopus56@yahoo.com> wrote:
--- daniel turner <outwest112@yahoo.com> wrote:
There is a binocular comet near 52 herculis and globular ngc6229 both worth looking at in their own right.
A 8.4 mag 10' arcmin comet currently in Her. Courtesy finder chart for SLC:
http://members.csolutions.net/fisherka/astronote/plan/20060815_P177Barnard.j...
Crinklaw's page with finder chart: http://www.skyhound.com/sh/comets.html
- Canopus56
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