[BAA Comets] C/2013 R1 this morning

[Andrew Robertson]

Morning Nick,

I was down at Haw Wood Wednesday night with the 600mmm Dob and my recently
aquired 28 x 110 binoculars :-)

Had very nice visual views at both 6pm and 3am (Thur) in the big bins. The
nucleus was mega bright in the 600mm. It's good to see a bit of curvature in
the tail in your image which I see visually but doesn't seem to show so much
in images.

Do we know what it's current magnitude is? I've just woke after a session
until 5.30am this morning. Naked eye, it didn't seem quite as bright as
nearby Zeta CrB (mag 4.63) but when I defocussed Zeta to a similar size it
seemed fainter than Lovejoy although didn't have them both in the same FoV.
So I'm presuming mag 4.5 - 5?

Andrew 

-----Original Message-----
From: comets-disc-bounces at britastro.org
[mailto:comets-disc-bounces at britastro.org] On Behalf Of Nick James
Sent: 05 December 2013 08:48
To: BAA Comets discussion list
Subject: [BAA Comets] C/2013 R1 this morning

Morning all,

Had a clear night from dusk to dawn last night so observed many comets and
other things. With the demise of C/2012 S1, Comet C/2013 R1
(Lovejoy) is the brightest comet around. It was well seen from here both in
the evening and morning skies. I first saw it visually on my cycle back from
work (I keep a pair of binoculars in my rucksack just in case) and later got
images at a variety of scales.

I'll process all the images later but here is a quick wide angle shot of the
comet from this morning using a 550D and 200mm, f/2.8L lens. The FoV is
approx 4 deg square, N up.

http://www.nickdjames.com/Comets/2013/2013r1stacked.jpg

I have a stack of 100 short images showing lots of detail in the inner coma.
I'll post these later.

Now to leave for work, half asleep.

Nick.
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