Cory and I joined Patrick, Ann House and Ann's brother at SPOC tonight. We could see it in the Bogden refractory but not by binocs. It certainly wasn't naked-eye. But the company made the little trip worthwhile. -- Joe ------------------------------ On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 8:55 PM MDT Mark Shelton wrote:
I do not want to hear about it. Dang. No luck in riverton
Mark
________________________________ From: Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 8:51 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Comet from SPOC
I lucked out this time. Right at sunset, the west cleared-off completely from my house in Granger. I've had pristine views.
The comet is noticeably dimmer than it was a week ago, but slightly higher in a darker sky, so that's some compensation. I can't quite be sure of seeing it naked-eye anymore, as I could last week.
It will be interesting to see what it looks like in three, four days, when the approaching weather system has moved out again.
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Brent Watson <brentjwatson@yahoo.com>wrote:
I started to drive out to SPOC but turned around because of those darned clouds. My son says they are bad at Antelope Island too.
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From my home in the SL valley, it was excellent in binoculars, both the 8x40mm wide-angle that orginally belonged to my dad (those binos witnessed a lot of Utah football games, let me tell you!), and 15x70mm. In fact, that's how I first spotted it, in pretty bright twilight. The fuzzy coma is what gives it away. I also used my home-made 70mm f/4 spotting scope at 10X and 23X. A classic comet in appearance at 23X.
While I was watching, a jet was making it's final approach turn into SL Int'l airport, and was coming straight at me with it's landing lights on, in the same FOV as the comet. Kind of neat. This comet certainly didn't live up it's advance billing, and it's near the bottom 10% of my lifetime comet list. Worth a look to an amateur astronomer, but nothing to go to the media about. On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 11:07 PM, Joe Bauman <josephmbauman@yahoo.com>wrote:
Cory and I joined Patrick, Ann House and Ann's brother at SPOC tonight. We could see it in the Bogden refractory but not by binocs. It certainly wasn't naked-eye. But the company made the little trip worthwhile. -- Joe
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