Spotted it last night with a C-5 so tried getting a picture tonight with the C-14 & ST-10. Unguided 1 minute exposure. FOV is 18' x 26'. Brightest star in the field (lower right of the comet) is mag 10.4. Smoke and some thin cirrus did not help but it'll give y'all an idea what it looks like. http://utahastro.info/temp/BARNARD.JPG Patrick Richard Tenney wrote:
I located the comet without too much trouble last night in my 9x63's, barely visible as an averted-vision smudge in a very light-polluted sky (my back yard in Lindon). Probably an easy target under dark skies.
--- Canopus56 <canopus56@yahoo.com> wrote:
--- daniel turner <outwest112@yahoo.com> wrote:
There is a binocular comet near 52 herculis and globular ngc6229 both worth looking at in their
own
right.
A 8.4 mag 10' arcmin comet currently in Her. Courtesy finder chart for SLC:
http://members.csolutions.net/fisherka/astronote/plan/20060815_P177Barnard.j...
Crinklaw's page with finder chart: http://www.skyhound.com/sh/comets.html
- Canopus56