daniel turner wrote:
I my 10x50 binoculars, I could see an hint of the ion tail to the northeast. It's way too nice out to keep my observatory closed so I opened up and tried a few CCD images of the comet. Alas, the coma is so much brighter than the tail that by the time any tail showed in the image the coma was way overexposed.
However, moving the aim point about 15 arc minutes to the northeast so the coma moved out of the field the tail Daniel mentioned popped right out. Lots of detail. Here's a one minute exposure with an ST-237, "unphotoshopped", 12x15 arc minute field of view, through the C-14 operating at f/3.0: http://www.trilobyte.net/paw/temp/TEMP007.JPG Now I'm wishing I had my Schmidt camera installed. Hmmm, now that I'm thinking about it, maybe I should install it... Patrick