[BAA Comets] 2014 Q2 was Re: P/2014 X1 (Elenin)

[Tony Angel]

Thank you Nick. It was good to see you and others again. Being able to meet 
up with yourselves is one of the few things I miss with being in Spain.
After the really bad weather over here I am now having a spend a few days 
getting the observatory up and running again. Clamshells are not the best 
design to keep out driving rain in gale force conditions.  I did a few 
tentative observations to check on the amount of work doing, though I have 
decided against a certain method of cleaning the corrector plate LOL.

I took a quick and dirty image of 2014 Q2 in the early hours. (attached). 
Not good enough to publish or analyse properly as it showed up a few 
problems for me to iron out. 4" F4 Pentax/ ST7.

Tony
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From: "Nick James" <ndj at nickdjames.com>
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2014 9:00 AM
To: "BAA Comets discussion list" <comets-disc at britastro.org>
Subject: Re: [BAA Comets] P/2014 X1 (Elenin)

> Morning Tony,
>
> Good to see you at the BAA Christmas Meeting on Saturday.
>
>> Another dramatic unfolding of a new comet over the past 36 hours.
>>
>> According to Leonid  it is 17m (by UCAC4) and 18m (by USNO B1.0)
>> It is Leonid's third comet.
>> http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K14/K14X66.html
>
> I managed to book a 10 min slot on iTelescope T21 this morning and got two 
> 120s frames which I've stacked:
>
> http://www.nickdjames.com/Comets/2014/2014x1_20141215_0655_ndj.jpg
>
> After a rainy night it cleared briefly in Chelmsford at around 0640 and I 
> managed to get six 60s frames with my C11 with Auriga low in the NW. These 
> also show the comet just a few minutes before the NM images:
>
> http://www.nickdjames.com/Comets/2014/2014x1_20141215_0650_ndj.jpg
>
> Astrometrica gives a magnitude of around 17.3 using UCAC-4.
>
> Congratulations to Leonid. Great to see that amateurs can still beat the 
> surveys!
>
> Nick.
>
>
>
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