Not great, but surely better than just "I've seen it". Last night (Sunday) it really was quite nice. Respectable tail with visible detail, bright coma. Certainly the best comet I've seen since Holmes some 5 years ago. And you have to go back to the 90s to find something better than that. patrick Sent from my iPad On Mar 18, 2013, at 23:42, Joe Bauman <josephmbauman@yahoo.com> wrote:
I agree. I have seen it, is about the best I can say about that little comet. -- Joe
________________________________ From: Siegfried Jachmann <siegfried@jachmann.org> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 10:55 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Comet from SPOC
Yep. We saw it in the telescopes, the finders, in binoculars ald as it got darker naked eye. I was only able to see it naked eye by looking along the telescope tube. I would not have just picked it out. It's by no means a great comet, not even a good comet but it is a comet and now I have seen it. I went out to SPOC with my brother-in-law, George Van Komen. We had a good time. Later Kurt Fisher picked out Messier A & B on the Moon. I had not paid attention to them so it was a real treat. Thanks Kurt.
Sig