Daniel, I'm in favor of doing astronomy anyway that gives the astronomer pleasure. Personally, I don't know the skies as well as many of you, and I don't want to use up too many of my limited number of brain cells in learning that. I prefer to , if I can push some buttons and get down to my real job with astronomy, which I see as astrophotography. It's exhausting and time-consuming enough to get even one good photo a night, with hours spent setting up, the variables that have to be calculated and all the adjustments that need to be made, without spending a lot of time with my scope going in circles to find the target. It's just that old adage, to each his own. So let's not mourn a lost art -- it's lost for a good reason. -- Thanks, Joe ________________________________ From: daniel turner <outwest112@yahoo.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Saturday, September 3, 2011 4:56 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Comet Garradd You don't need exact coordinates if you have a telescope with "push-to" pointing technology. Just point at the coathanger asterism and do a slow spiral search along it's southern edge going farther and farther out with each pass. Unfortunately with motor driven telescopes this seems to be a lost art. People with hand controls just can't do a simple spiral search. How do you think Charles Messier did his searches for comets? Not with a hand controller, that's for sure. DT From: Rodger C. Fry <rcfry@comcast.net> To: 'Utah Astronomy' <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Saturday, September 3, 2011 4:41 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Comet Garradd Siegfried, Here are the coordinates for tonight. Date RA Dec Sun Earth Mag Elong Con Rise hr min deg ' AU AU deg pm 1 Jul 2011 22 42.7 +02 29 2.759 2.163 10.1 115.8 Aqr 10.33 pm 8 Jul 2011 22 32.9 +04 24 2.693 1.996 9.8 123.5 Peg 10.03 pm 15 Jul 2011 22 20.6 +06 25 2.625 1.843 9.5 131.1 Peg 9.30 pm 22 Jul 2011 22 04.9 +08 37 2.558 1.705 9.2 138.7 Peg 8.54 pm 29 Jul 2011 21 44.8 +10 54 2.492 1.588 9.0 145.4 Peg 8.15 pm 5 Aug 2011 21 21.3 +13 09 2.426 1.498 8.7 149.3 Peg 7.33 pm 12 Aug 2011 20 54.7 +15 14 2.361 1.435 8.5 148.7 Del 6.47 pm 19 Aug 2011 20 26.1 +16 58 2.297 1.404 8.3 143.3 Del 5.57 pm Set 26 Aug 2011 19 57.1 +18 13 2.233 1.403 8.2 134.8 Sge 2.56 am 2 Sep 2011 19 29.6 +18 59 2.171 1.429 8.1 125.0 Sge 1.58 am 9 Sep 2011 19 04.8 +19 19 2.110 1.477 8.1 115.0 Sge 1.04 am Rodger Fry -----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Siegfried Jachmann Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2011 4:35 PM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Comet Garradd What are tonigh's coordinate's? On Sep 3, 2011 3:39 PM, "Chrismo" <djchrismo@gmail.com> wrote:
It's great when you finally get to see it though, isn't it? I'm constantly amazed every time I get to see a "new" (to me) object.
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Raeburn Kennard <rkennard@kmclaw.com> wrote:
After several failed attempts beginning in mid-August, I was finally able last night to see Comet Garradd from my front yard in Draper through my 10" Dob. With the general light pollution of the valley, several street lights and my neighbor's new dark-activated decorative driveway lamp - for which he is so proud -(three high-watt, unshielded bulbs) I was barely able to see Sagitta with the naked eye. But, star-hopping from there with my trusty Telrad, I was able to just barely see the bluish-green smudge of the comet. Makes me appreciate more and more with each new comet what a major event Hale-Bopp was!
Raeburn Kennard
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