tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25327006.post1824449502954920446..comments2024-01-02T10:55:10.607-06:00Comments on Angry Astronomer: Comet Hartley2Jon Voiseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11550625188837528980noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25327006.post-48913749212029149922011-05-10T18:28:13.558-05:002011-05-10T18:28:13.558-05:00The only people I know who have spotted it naked e...The only people I know who have spotted it naked eye are devoted comet-cathers with lots of experience. 103/P is rather low contrast though, more a smudge on the lens in my 15x70mm binos. It doesn't help that the Minor Planet Center changed URL after a hacking attack which means that many planatarium softwares have outdated positions.PatrikHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17942204264403584931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25327006.post-64939492365792914532010-11-18T11:26:56.335-06:002010-11-18T11:26:56.335-06:00A couple club members are still seeing it or looki...A couple club members are still seeing it or looking for it. But 25x125 binoculars are pretty serious aligned telescopes. The LBT is not, IMO, 2000x8408 binoculars. It's a serious telescope.<br /><br />And, one of these guys also has a 444 mm (17.5 inch) Dob, with some sort of 100 degree AFOV low power eyepiece for sky scanning.<br /><br />I've not gotten a chance to look for it myself. I'm mostly interested in unaided eye comets that I can talk up on my TV show, Astronomy For Everyone. That means it has to stay around for the nearly a month between when we shoot the show and when it goes on the air. And, it'd be really nice if it's still there at the end of the month.Stephenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03934169832326108710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25327006.post-18351744238926061142010-10-21T03:32:31.397-05:002010-10-21T03:32:31.397-05:00The only people I know who have spotted it naked e...The only people I know who have spotted it naked eye are devoted comet-cathers with lots of experience. 103/P is rather low contrast though, more a smudge on the lens in my 15x70mm binos. It doesn't help that the Minor Planet Center changed URL after a hacking attack which means that many planatarium softwares have outdated positions.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17942204264403584931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25327006.post-10347932220305242742010-10-19T20:00:38.850-05:002010-10-19T20:00:38.850-05:00Yeah, I 'm not having any luck with my 80mm re...Yeah, I 'm not having any luck with my 80mm refractor, either. I live in deep dark No.Michigan and nothing in the eyepiece is a comet....."naked eye"..pssshaaaw! Maybe when my eyes were ten years youngerJamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25327006.post-27880389079063493872010-10-19T16:17:12.407-05:002010-10-19T16:17:12.407-05:00I'm not rightly sure what the magnification wa...I'm not rightly sure what the magnification was as the telescope I was using wasn't my own. It was a 4" reflector which tend to have a focal length around 700mm (iirc), and the eyepiece was a 40 or 32mm, so looking at around 15-20 mag. But I couldn't even find anything in the finder scope that looked comet-ish. Whenever I thought I did, I checked the eyepiece and it was very stellar.Jon Voiseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11550625188837528980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25327006.post-37948869178823374552010-10-19T16:13:42.798-05:002010-10-19T16:13:42.798-05:00You might try using binoculars--that's how I s...You might try using binoculars--that's how I spotted Hale-Bopp when it was just a fuzzy little blob. You didn't say what magnification you used, but something low like 10x is good for spread-out stuff, and 50mm should turn up a magnitude 5.feralboy12https://www.blogger.com/profile/08418361145990032090noreply@blogger.com