[BAA Comets] C/2017 T2 PANSTARRS

[Charles S Morris]

 Hi all,
My first post to this group.
I just imaged 17 T2 with my 41cm f/6.8 SCT + unfiltered CCD - the CCD peaks in the visual..  If you had seen my skies at 3:30 you wouldn't have thought it possible to get anything, but the skies got better and I got 29P and 17 T2.  The reason for the note is that the comet is brighter than 14.0.  From the images (and I will analyze it later today), I would say that it was between 12.0 and 13.0 based on the magnitudes of surrounding stars.  Of course, the analysis will tell the tale.
Also, got 65P, 16 R2, and 17 K2 in the evening when the sky was in better shape.
For those of you that don't know Southern California, we sometimes get monsoon moisture from the Gulf of Mexico.  That is what I was fighting tonight.  My good friend Alan Hale loses much of the summer because he gets the monsoon moisture much more than I do.  On the other hand, I get low clouds and fog from the Pacific Ocean which is 25 miles to the west.  I am at about 500' elevation.  [Yes, we also have mountains
It is after 5am here and I need some sleep.  Hopefully, I will post an image later today.
Best regards,
Charles
Charles MorrisDreamweaver Observatory, Fillmore, CA
 
    On Monday, August 5, 2019, 12:48:00 PM PDT, Nick James <ndj at nickdjames.com> wrote:  
 
 Very nice image. This is certainly not a 9th mag comet.

Nick.

On 05/08/2019 20:43, David Swan wrote:
> Link to Alan's pic [marginally better than Nick's - sorry ;) ]
> 
> https://twitter.com/AlanHale20
> 
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