Boy I hope Pan-STARRS is better Wednesday night! -- Joe ________________________________ From: Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Saturday, March 9, 2013 8:45 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Comet PanSTARRS On Tuesday and Wednesday nights, it should be much easier to spot. It will be a tad higher, and on Tuesday it will be just to the left (south) of the moon. On Wednesday it will be just below it. All I saw tonight from the backyard was a fuzzy nucleus. It appeared like a slightly out-of-focus star, and that was my only clue, since stars near it were perfect points. In fact I am amazed at the clarity of the air tonight. The bright winter stars just burned with pinpoint intensity in the deepening twilight. Jupiter in the bino was tack-sharp. The softness of the seeing this afternoon when I was looking at the sun completely vanished. I didn't use high magnifications tonight so that may be a different story. But at low powers and naked-eye, the sky was amazingly crisp and clear. My only complaint tonight is the lake stink. Bad. On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com>wrote:
I don't know where Kay is but with you picking it up from the SL Valley I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong.
I'm pretty sure I've got the computer set right. I'll know that for sure in about 30 minutes when it swings the scope over to ISON.
It'll be nice to have you out Wednesday. At least we'll know there will be someone there who can find the comet.
Regarding Wednesday, if at all possible I hope we'll have the Grim open so we can take at shot at ISON visually. MPC currently has it a mag 15.3 so it'll be a stretch but it can't hurt to try.
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