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David Swan
ParticipantI 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!)
David Swan
ParticipantGood capture of both tails, Martin.
David Swan
ParticipantYes. I do really like that pic. The Sony 85mm FE lens is very good. The other image is APS-C crop and digi zoom!
David Swan
ParticipantA fantastic observing opportunity last night. Clear throughout.
David Swan
ParticipantHi 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.
David Swan
ParticipantNice 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.
David Swan
ParticipantI 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.
David Swan
ParticipantHere’s a compressed jpg from this morning.
David Swan
ParticipantFantastic comet through binoculars. Well worth getting up for. Thank goodness it was clear in the NE!
David Swan
ParticipantThe provenance seems legit… C/2020 F3 from the ISS
David Swan
ParticipantYes 🙂 , 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.
David Swan
ParticipantI agree. I didn’t post a link to the animated image series because such things appear to be strangely unpopular.
David Swan
ParticipantA nice capture here [external link]
https://twitter.com/Komet123Jager/status/1279303106728275970
There may be a patch of clear weather up here Mon morning…
David Swan
ParticipantConvincing 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.
David Swan
ParticipantExcellent – thanks!
David Swan
ParticipantHi Tim. AstroImageJ (often seen contracted as AIJ) – built on Image J, which is used widely in research – does it quite nicely.
David Swan
ParticipantHi 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.
David Swan
ParticipantThis implicit reference to posterior probability in Bayesian statistics is just the sort of intellectual high-brow stuff one would expect on our forum 🙂
David Swan
ParticipantSorry Nick. I am happy for you to delete ‘my’ thread to focus all the stuff here.
David Swan
ParticipantThe Forbes article is measured, with wise comments from you.
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