I'm sure many of you caught this a few days ago: http://www.space.com/20367-comet-ison-brightness-predictions.html Never expect anything from a comet, and especially don't make predictions. Very nice night tonight. Even ISON's tail has returned (barely). http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/C_2012_S1.2013MAR31.JPG Pan-STARRS is now high enough after dark that I'm able to spot it from my observatory. But, as I posted earlier, through trees. But I thought I'd see what I'd get despite having to shoot through the trees. Certainly not terrific but better than I imagined. The following have the same settings I've been using for ISON (C-14 @ f/5.5, ST-10, binned 3x3 and chilled to -10) except while I always use 30 second exposures for ISON I first did a 1 second and then a series of increasing exposures leading up to 30 seconds. The images I posted are 1 and 30 seconds. http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/C_2011_L4.2013MAR31.JPG BTW, Pan-STARRS was still just above the horizon as astronomical dark arrived and as was posted earlier, against a dark sky and through binoculars the tail really is fanned out. Quite impressive. patrick _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options".