[BAA Comets] C/2017T2 this morning from Southend, Essex

[Andrew Robertson]

N.B. At least I recognise those field stars in your image so I was in the right area :)

 

Andrew

 

From: Comets-disc [mailto:comets-disc-bounces at lists.britastro.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Robertson
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Morning Peter,

 

That magnitude fits in that I’ve looked for it these last 2 mornings visually with the 24” and not the slightest hint whereas C/2018 W2 & N2 were easy direct vision. Mindy you it’s quite a bit lower than those two so compounded by atmospheric extinction and claggy skies down there.

 

Andrew

 

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Subject: [BAA Comets] C/2017T2 this morning from Southend, Essex

 

Hi All,

The sky this morning in Essex was about as good as its gets for me and C/2017T2 PanSTARRS just cleared various obstructions as viewed from my observatory. Here’s my image taken at the start of astronomical dawn with the comet at about 15 degs altitude. http://www.astromania.co.uk/2017T2_20190808_0159_PCarson.jpg

It’s showing  short 2 arcmin tail. I measured its m2 brightness at mag 14.45 with a 6.6 arcsec rad aperture and it’s m1 brightness at 14.34 over a coma of 22.6 arcsec dia.

Its certainly changed since I last took a series of images in the late autumn / winter of 2018, lets hope it keeps changing for the better.

 

All the best

Peter

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