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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.
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.
Fantastic comet through binoculars. Well worth getting up for. Thank goodness it was clear in the NE!
The provenance seems legit… C/2020 F3 from the ISS
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.
I agree. I didn’t post a link to the animated image series because such things appear to be strangely unpopular.
A nice capture here [external link]
https://twitter.com/Komet123Jager/status/1279303106728275970
There may be a patch of clear weather up here Mon morning…
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.
Hi Tim. AstroImageJ (often seen contracted as AIJ) – built on Image J, which is used widely in research – does it quite nicely.
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.
This implicit reference to posterior probability in Bayesian statistics is just the sort of intellectual high-brow stuff one would expect on our forum 🙂
So I went to the Daily Mail for the latest authoritative information on C/2020 F8 … and to my great surprise came across some commentary by Nick!
This is great, thanks. Good to see it has arrived in the northern sky. It is obviously quite a bright object (would you say mag 5 – 6 is about right?) from looking at the stars that are visible in your image. Unfortunately we’ve had a lot of cloud at the NE coast these past weeks, and I haven’t been able to observe for some time. I’m ready with binoculars and a DSLR. The latest images do show a dust tail, which I hope develops further.
