Enid, Could have been. I haven’t tried to view it this week. I’m not sure what the visual magnitude is at this time (~9.5)? I tried to take a look at it last week through my 10” scope. I tried for two mornings. I never did see it. Used high-precision pointing with RTGUI, so I think I had the correct coordinates for spotting it. Maybe not. I‘m pretty good at spotting the faint fuzzies, but I could not see anything resembling a comet. I thought about putting the SBIG camera on the third morning out and taking a go at it that way, but it was cloudy so I went back to bed. If I get a chance and the weather cooperates and if I don’t get called out (as Roseanne Roseannadanna used to say, “It’s always something”) I’ll try to sneak a peak at ISON this weekend. I’m not too hopeful, however, after downloading and reading the material Joe posted. Bummer. Maybe I’ll take the binoculars to work tomorrow. Hopefully, I‘ll have time to go out and take a quick look. Dave On Oct 15, 2013, at 6:30 PM, Enid Norton <enierae@yahoo.com> wrote:
so I was up early this morning with binoculars and saw something on the north side of Mars. blurry and elongated could this have been Ison or a fluke of vision? _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy
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