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FT editorial published yesterday (2026/08/03) was supportive of rescue.
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Unfortunately conditions were bad last night where I am. The storm clouds cleared but mist formed and the transparency was poor between 11pm and midnight. Hoping for better this evening. I see Nick James had reasonable enough conditions.
I completely agree with you Alex – I’ll be setting up my SCT for visual tonight!
The sun only gets about 9 degrees below the horizon here (Newcastle upon Tyne) mid summer, but as you say NC1 is bright enough. And nicely placed in Oph for a pleasing background view.
Not a spectrum but a quick iTel snap overlaid on bright GAIA sources. 2x60s, 2026-06-13T13:32:42.828
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C/2025 R2 via T59 at Siding Spring (1x60s; 2025/10/18 20:24). The apparent movement of the comet is quite fast at the moment: more than 11 arcsec/min.
Pleased to snap C/2025 R2 this evening, when it was low in the SW. Put the telescope on Phi Oph at about 7.15pm and waited for sky to darken.
12x10s, midpoint 2025/10/11 18:45 UT
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Captured this morning with my Seestar. Looking good!
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Will do. Was up this morning at 4am to observe, but there was a lot of cloud from the N to E. Of course it had all cleared by 9am…David
Haha. (Apart from this) I haven’t seen much April Fool’s Day content across the media. Serious times, I guess. David
Development of ion tail into at least three streamers.
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Captured this eve (midpoint) 2023-01-28T19:12. Lovely ion tail.
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Yes, that’s quite a rate of movement across the sky at Fri [corrected] 00:00 GMT. David
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Sleeker ion tail when imaged last night. The comet’s hood lends it the appearance of a speeding bullet.
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Mike and Martin,
Your posts prompted me to have look just now: they have indeed moved!!
You’re right Nick, there were / are some issues – I’ve seen a lot of hot pixels (not calibrating out), dead pixel columns and so on in my images. I’m less fastidious than you I suspect, so iTel is still more than good enough for me – for an astro fix when the weather is bad oop north. Let me know though if other remote observing solutions come your way – please.
From Discord forum:
mladen (iTelescope) — 10/01/2023 21:55
Our apologies. Overhauling all scopes after many years of service. Estimated at around 10 days work. Our team is in New Mexico Skies, working around the clock.mladen (iTelescope) — 12/01/2023 22:13
T02 (and all of New Mexico Skies) has been on extended maintenance from the 10th of January. This is scheduled to end by the 21st of January.Hello,
I observed on 29 days of 2022. By far my best month was December, followed by October then January. Comets were my main target, but I did also take pictures of assorted transients, globulars and other DSOs.
A poor year. But interestingly(?) I did observe on both the first and last days of 2022!
David
