[BAA Comets] C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy - Disconnection Event

[Andrew Robertson]

Wow, excellent Tony. I've just got back in from some visual observations: I just managed to see it N/E at 1745 hrs (Norfolk, UK) before fully dark. Got the scopes on it (12” Mewlon and 4” Apo) whereupon a bit of cloud came over. Cloud cleared: very bright and large in Mewlon at x89 (40mm Pentax). Tried 56mm 2” Plossl (x64) – preferred Pentax (x89). Very tiny stellar core, large outer halo – about twice as extended in SSE direction. Checked it’s visual N/E view which was very obvious in a fully dark sky now (1845) it forming an equilateral triangle with Nu and 10 Tauri. I reckon Nu was a tad brighter but it was about the same brightness as 10 Tauri, the latter being mag 4.3. Decided to sketch now and thin cloud  started moving over so waited. This got progressively thicker until I gave up about 1930 hours but did enjoy watching it move through the field stars during this period.

Andrew

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From: Comets-disc [mailto:comets-disc-bounces at britastro.org] On Behalf Of Tony Angel
Sent: 08 January 2015 20:18
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Subject: [BAA Comets] C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy - Disconnection Event


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Tony. 
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