I tried seeing last night, it would have been above my view of the Rockies around 3am. But the Denver Nebula was way brighter than I thought it’d be, and the area was completely washed out. Dan -- Daniel Holmes, danielh@holmesonics.com "Laugh while you can, monkey boy!" -- Lord John Whorfin
On Jul 16, 2020, at 1:38 AM, Joe Bauman via Utah-Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
I saw it tonight when I was near the Great Salt Lake. It was rather dim and I failed to get a photo of it. I was using an ancient 8” Celestron (which no longer pretends to track) that I thought would act like a big telephoto lens. But it didn’t work for several reasons. Next time I’ll use a plain old telephoto and I should get something better than star trails.
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On Jul 15, 2020, at 5:14 PM, chuck.hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> wrote:
Correction: Direction is NNW.Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone -------- Original message --------From: Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> Date: 7/15/20 6:35 AM (GMT-07:00) To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: NEOWISE No need to travel out of town, I spotted the comet immediately from my backyard in West Valley last night. Brighter than expected! This little comet reminds of Ikeya-Zhang, around 2002, wasn't it? Maybe a bit bigger and brighter though Ikeya-Zhang was in a darker sky.I used my old Sans & Streiffe 7x35mm binocular and a Vixen Mini-60s spotting scope at various low magnifications. Best views were with a Takahashi 25mm ortho and home-made 23mm wide-angle Plossl eyepiece.It's very low in the WNW. Start looking right after sundown and it will pop into view as soon as the sky darkens sufficiently, only about ten or fifteen degrees in elevation. I was fortunate that the comet just happened to lie in a place between the trees, from my yard, but I wouldn't have to travel more than a block or two to find a good viewing location if I couldn't use the yard. You just need a low western horizon. The east benches should be terrific. _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy
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