[BAA Comets] UK observations of C/2011 L4 (PanSTARRS) tonight

[Nick James]

This evening the weather in the south is rather better and so far I have 
received positive observations from James Abott (Witham, Essex) and Ian 
Sharp (Selsey, Sussex).

James saw the comet at 1850 UTC using 15x70 bins and estimates the coma 
mag as +1 with a 45 arcmin tail. Ian imaged the comet and has a nice 
photo here:

http://www.astro-sharp.com/images/comets/C2011L4/C2011L4-2013-03-12-19-00-IDS.jpg 


He comments that he had a nice view in a 130mm f/7 APO and that the 
comet has a very bright, starlike nucleus.

My attempts from Chelmsford, Essex were thwarted by a band of cloud 
which sank in the sky at the same rate the comet was setting. I did get 
a nice image of a 23hr old Moon though:

http://www.nickdjames.com/Media/albums/Astronomy/Moon/Moon_20130312_ndj.jpg

Please send any more observations to cometobs at britastro.org.

Nick.