Chuck: Actually prior to perihelion McNaught was easily visable in 10x50 binoculars from what is now the site of the natural history museum. I shared the view with my fiend Tho Dinh, his wife and an colleague. Tho also snapped this picture http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=374 He used a 4 inch refractor on an altaz mount with a Canon 350D. Low tech even for 5 years ago. He also brought along his television universal remote in order to snap the picture without touching and disturbing the rickety set up. It was a wintery chilly sunset that just happened to be cloud free. DT From: Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com>
To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2013 8:44 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] ISON (?) Lives
Unreplenished tails dissipate quickly, within hours or days. I remember comet McNaught. It had a huge, resonance-banded tail (visible only in the southern hemisphere in it's entirety) but all you could see in daytime from here was a bright coma. I think our only hope of seeing something is if a portion of the nucleus has survived perihelion, and it is at least somewhat active in retreat.
Hopefully the clouds give us a break.
On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Jared Smith <jared@smithplanet.com> wrote:
Even if it is debris or if it continues to fall apart, couldn't this result in a spectacular tail over the coming days/weeks, even if there is no coma? Or is the thinking that it would be too dissipated by the time it becomes visible?
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