I observed the comet last night through less than ideal skies from Sandy's light polluted skies. The tail was easily visible in 8x56 binoculars and extended roughly 5 degrees. Once I spotted it in binoculars, the head was visible to the naked eye. I also observed it with a 90mm spotting scope at 20X. While I was watching it, I thought I noticed subtle short duration changes in the tail structure, but I couldn't be sure. Anyone else see this? -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Wiggins [mailto:paw@trilobyte.net] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 9:59 PM To: utah astronomy listserve Subject: [Utah-astronomy] More on the comet Hi, Just back from SPOC 2 where Bruce Grim and I chose comet Ikeya-Zhang as the subject of the Ealing's first light. As you might expect, the comet through a 400 mm scope was very impressive. Anyone else out there seen the comet lately? Patrick :-) p.s. I understand that the D News may have a photographer and reporter at tomorrow (Thursday, 21 March) night's impromptu comet/occultation/planet watch at the Midvale Harmons. Y'all come! _______________________________________________ Utah-astronomy mailing list Utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy