[BAA Comets] C/2017 T2 PANSTARRS

[Nick James]

Charles/David/Peter,

Thanks for all of your efforts to get this comet. It looks like it might 
be a bit brighter than 14 but it certainly is not 9. I've been away from 
home for a few days so haven't been able to try from Chelmsford and the 
some monsoon affecting Charles has wiped out my remote attempts from New 
Mexico.

Charles - Welcome to this list. We're very pleased to have you on board.

Nick.


On 07/08/2019 04:34, David Swan 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
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> ________________________________________
> 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
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> 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
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> 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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