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

[Nick Howes]

Terry and I were chatting this morning. The V band data I was getting from SSO showed it about to kick off..


Excellent work Tony





Nick





-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Robertson <alphacentauri at tesco.net>
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Sent: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 20:25
Subject: Re: [BAA Comets] C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy - Disconnection Event


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

-----Original Message-----
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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