[BAA Comets] C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy

[Peter Carson]

Hi Andrew, I'm in the observatory at this very moment imaging 2014Q. The
comet is plainly visible in 7x50's even with the moon and light pollution
here in Southend Essex. The tail is quite obvious in the images I'm getting
with my 12". I'll swop to my wider field refractor shortly to try and
capture the full extent of the tail.
Regards
Peter


On 6 January 2015 at 18:44, Andrew Robertson <alphacentauri at tesco.net>
wrote:

> Just had a very nice visual view of the comet during the last 45 to 60
> mins before the moon got in the way. At about 15 degs altitude in a not
> fully dark but very damp sky I found it easily in my 2.4 x 25mm opera
> glasses. In fact I would say it was bordering on naked eye visibility but
> the sky was too damp/claggy to be definite. In my 15 x 70 bins it was very
> nice indeed and in my 28 x 110 bins superb.
>
> Thursday night is looking promising here in Norfolk, hoping to get a good
> hour in a dark sky.
>
> Regards,
>
> Andrew
>
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