[BAA Comets] 2013 March 13 observation of C/2011 L4 (PanSTARRS)

[Nick James]

The weather over the UK last night came good at the right time and I 
managed my first observation of this comet at 19:00 UTC when it was 
around 4 deg above the western horizon. It was easily visible in 8x30 
bins but not with the naked eye.

I've put some processed images here:

http://www.nickdjames.com/Media/albums/Astronomy/Comets/2011l4_20130313_1906_ndj.jpg

and there is a short timelapse movie made up of 2.5s frames here:

http://youtu.be/_BaJLInJwDI

A very rough magnitude estimate based on a mag +6.5 star on the image 
near the comet gives it at around +1.5. It's certainly not the 
spectacular object that we hoped it would be but it was still exciting 
to pick it up in the bright twilight. It should still be a good object 
as it moves into darker skies.

Nick.