[BAA Comets] C/2017 T2 PANSTARRS

[Peter Carson]

Well done David, you were more successful than me.
I was up this morning and although the sky was partly cloudy I thought
there could be a short window where C/2017T2 would appear between
obstructions as viewed from my observatory. Unfortunately the clouds didn't
cooperative at the crucial moment.
Hopefully we'll get better skies before the moon starts to be a nuisance.
All the best.
Peter

On Wed, 7 Aug 2019, 04:35 David Swan, <djswanastro at outlook.com> wrote:

> Captured a few frames of C/2017 T2 this morning. Drifting cloud so not
> ideal. Great to see the Pleiades and Hyades though with the naked eye again!
>
> https://britastro.org/node/18951
>
> Nuclear mag ~ 14
>
> Background sky not great for estimating total mag
>
> David Swan
>
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Comets-disc <comets-disc-bounces at lists.britastro.org> on behalf of
> Charles S Morris <cometguy3783 at yahoo.com>
> Sent: 06 August 2019 05:12
> To: BAA Comets discussion list
> Subject: Re: [BAA Comets] C/2017 T2 PANSTARRS
>
> 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 Morris
> Dreamweaver 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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