Re: [Utah-astronomy] Re: Comet Machholtz
I found this picture on my digital-astro group. It really does have a tail. http://members.dodo.net.au/~erwinvandervelden/Temp/machholz.jpg Debbie
From: Patrick Wiggins <paw@trilobyte.net> Date: 2004/12/11 Sat AM 01:19:48 MST To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Re: Comet Machholtz
astrodeb@charter.net wrote:
...Anyway, I found this big, bright round fuzzy object about the size of Omega Centauri. I'm not kidding, this thing is big. It was bigger and brighter than I had expected to see it. I thought "wow, this thing is going to only get brighter next month". I couldn't detect a tail but I'm thinking I should go east of town next time to a truly dark site and take some photos of this comet. It did not disappoint me. It is going northward more each night and the show will get better from now on.
Debbie
I just had a go at the comet here in Stansbury. Debbie was right.
I started with naked eye but some thin clouds to the south hid the comet from view. However, with cheap 7x35 binoculars it was very easy to see, despite the clouds.
If it's this good now I can only drool at the thoughts of what it might be like at its brightest.
Patrick
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Hey everyone! I took a peak at the comet on Tuesday morning around 12:40 am and it was easy going with the 15x70's Very big and very fuzzy. I couldn't see a tail but the image was hardly steady seeing as it was cold and I was holding them by hand. I then took a quick peak at M-41, 42, 45, and Saturn. It was an absolutely beautiful night but I wasn't in the mood to drag out the scope, so I just watched the meteors for about 20 minutes until 1 am, I counted 20 in that time, and previous to the while I was driving home I saw a very bright and long fireball streak from directly overhead west till it almost passed behind the Oquirrah mountains. Very impressive!! much brighter than Sirius, I was in the car on a well lit road and it still left an afterimage. Howard --- astrodeb@charter.net wrote:
I found this picture on my digital-astro group. It really does have a tail.
http://members.dodo.net.au/~erwinvandervelden/Temp/machholz.jpg
astrodeb@charter.net wrote:
...Anyway, I found this big, bright round fuzzy
object about
the size of Omega Centauri. I'm not kidding, this thing is big.
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Several images of the comet at http://encke.jpl.nasa.gov . Patrick
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