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  • in reply to: C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) #582792
    David Swan
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    I wanted to enjoy the comet through binos – and I did, so I didn’t take the scope out. But on getting home I noticed the comet was accessible from my yard. Here’s a single 500ms frame taken with the Hyperstar. A very bright sky at 0247 BST, but you can nonetheless make out the bifurcation of the tail clearly (no calibration performed – I would need a new set of calibr frames for these settings!)

    in reply to: C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) #582787
    David Swan
    Participant

    Good capture of both tails, Martin.

    in reply to: C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) #582785
    David Swan
    Participant

    Yes. I do really like that pic. The Sony 85mm FE lens is very good. The other image is APS-C crop and digi zoom!

    in reply to: C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) #582783
    David Swan
    Participant

    A fantastic observing opportunity last night. Clear throughout.

    in reply to: C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) #582782
    David Swan
    Participant

    Hi Brandx. You might have uploaded the image to the site, but not embedded it into your post. You can also just attach the image file.

    in reply to: C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) #582763
    David Swan
    Participant

    Nice Bill! I am at 55deg N and have the same problem. Isn’t it notable that this comet has received almost no coverage in the mainstream press. I wonder if there has been a Y4 effect.

    in reply to: C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) #582750
    David Swan
    Participant

    I agree with Nick – get out there, and perhaps pray the evening before for good weather. The object is clearly visible to the naked-eye as a point object (you can pick it up by just scanning the sky by eye in the right area), but through binoculars it is transformed into the classic comet appearance. Leaves a real impression. I used 10 x 50 bins which framed it nicely.

    in reply to: C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) #582747
    David Swan
    Participant

    Here’s a compressed jpg from this morning.

    in reply to: C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) #582745
    David Swan
    Participant

    Fantastic comet through binoculars. Well worth getting up for. Thank goodness it was clear in the NE!

    in reply to: C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) #582730
    David Swan
    Participant

    The provenance seems legit… C/2020 F3 from the ISS

    https://twitter.com/ivan_mks63/status/1279466839823847426

    in reply to: C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) #582729
    David Swan
    Participant

    Yes 🙂 , I noticed he used his superfast 11in RASA. The good thing is that light gathering capacity isn’t the limiting factor here. It’s the weather that has to play ball – as you say.

    in reply to: C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) #582726
    David Swan
    Participant

    I agree. I didn’t post a link to the animated image series because such things appear to be strangely unpopular.

    in reply to: C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) #582724
    David Swan
    Participant

    A nice capture here [external link]

    https://twitter.com/Komet123Jager/status/1279303106728275970

    There may be a patch of clear weather up here Mon morning…

    in reply to: Jet in 3C273 #582722
    David Swan
    Participant

    Convincing to me. It is faintly visible on the DSS plate that I am currently browsing on Aladin. The PA and extent of the jet match nicely in the two images.

    in reply to: Observability Tool #582703
    David Swan
    Participant

    Excellent – thanks!

    in reply to: Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) estimates #582670
    David Swan
    Participant

    Hi Tim. AstroImageJ (often seen contracted as AIJ) – built on Image J, which is used widely in research – does it quite nicely.

    in reply to: A ring around a red star #582648
    David Swan
    Participant

    Hi Alan. Thanks for posting this. I’m browsing through images of the star on Aladin. The star is so bright that unfortunately the star image is associated with artifacts in all the plates. I’m not saying your colleague hasn’t found something – we need further obs. But not from me I’m afraid – I’m at 55 degrees north and the summer solstice approaches!

    BTW: North is left, East is down.

    in reply to: PQ And in very rare outburst #582592
    David Swan
    Participant

    This implicit reference to posterior probability in Bayesian statistics is just the sort of intellectual high-brow stuff one would expect on our forum 🙂

    in reply to: C/2020 F8 (SWAN) #582481
    David Swan
    Participant

    Sorry Nick. I am happy for you to delete ‘my’ thread to focus all the stuff here.

    in reply to: C/2020 F8 (SWAN) #582465
    David Swan
    Participant

    The Forbes article is measured, with wise comments from you.

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