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A bit of fun – here’s what I was seeing on the laptop at and around the critical moment! https://youtu.be/-ZnLqdqZ73g
Likewise, lots of cloud and very windy. Nightmare having to keep changing the exposure time in FireCapture. One frame – soon after ingress – with timestamp on image (the filename pertains to the avi).
The Hyperstar is out, secondary mirror in, focal reducer/corrector attached, telescope collimated & imaging of sun tested. Yes, I know where the north, south, east and west are now! Hope the weather cooperates…
Hello Philip,
Thanks for letting us know. The weather forecast is dreadful for NE England unfortunately. But if I do get a good photo…
David Swan
Thanks Mike. These sorts of things are very interesting.
“Other images include views of Wadesborough (8), Judge Bennett, “principal among inhabitants at Wadesboro”.”
You can’t imagine a report talking about a principal inhabitant nowadays!
Nice to meet you in London at NewSciLive.
We survived, thank goodness. The Daily Express had me worried.
36 x 20s midpoint 2019-10-23T19:32:34′ /UT
as a 5fps compressed movie, 5MB:
It’s quite bright now, isn’t it? (From your images.) It is overcast here, but I’m hopeful there will be clear patches in the next few days.
Imagine what these videos will look like in a decade, when the sky is crowded with low earth orbit artificial satellite constellations a la Starlink. More to come?
https://spacenews.com/spacex-submits-paperwork-for-30000-more-starlink-satellites/
Nice. Your stars are always nicely round across the field. The Hyperstar has such a tight critical focus zone. And I don’t always get it right!
Friends have reported the Celestron NexYZ is excellent – stable but adequately adjustable. But this is second hand; no experience myself.
Good image. I suspected there would be significant constraints but didn’t know the detail – the idea was probably put forward by that comet Hergenrother journalist!
Yes. I think I read somewhere that if the comet interceptor mission had already been deployed, this would have been one helluva target.
The comet moved away from a mag 13.4 star and I managed to get a set of frames before the sky started brightening noticeably. The sky was excellent though and I saw Sirius rising! Taken through a Baader V filter.
I certainly agree with you on the effect of the internet. On a brighter note – I was pleasantly surprised last night by being able to pick up tails on 260P and C/2018 N2. I imagine light-buckets are required though for visual observers.
Don’t be too hard on yourself, Dominic. I did in fact do a bit of web searching to see where the Mirror journalist may have got this information. And I had a look at in the sky.org . Your site had nothing about 21:15 being the best time to spot the comet, nor did your site say it was super bright (it wasn’t even in the top three brightest comets) / even in the naked eye range.
