Re: [APML] Visual on C/2001 Q4 (NEAT)...

["Chris Cook" <ccjd@ix.netcom.com>]

Hi Geoff -
Must be your southern latitude helping out.  I just came in from trying to
spot it in 10x50's as well.  I gave up at 8:30 pm EDT and saw nothing.  I
could easily pick out Delta, Epsilon and Eta Canis Majoris at mags 1.8, 1.5
& 2.4 respectively.  They were rapidly setting.
Its not looking like mag 1.0 to me.

Chris

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Chris Cook
Astronomical & Nightscape Photography
www.abmedia.com/astro

-----Original Message-----
From: Geoff Powers <astropix@att.net>
To: astro-photo@seds.org <astro-photo@seds.org>
Date: Monday, May 03, 2004 10:16 PM
Subject: [APML] Visual on C/2001 Q4 (NEAT)...


> Hello List...
>
>     Yup... it's visible now... by ascending upon the roof of my domicile,
I was
>able to catch a fleeting glimpse of this visitor.
>
>     Caught it in my 10X50 binos... maybe 30 seconds before it was lost in
the
>trees, about 9:05 PM EDT, from north Atlanta metro.
>
>     It looked like an arrowhead, almost parallel to the horizon, pointed
just
>below north. Very bright core, but no discernable tail.
>
>     Local conditions prohibited a better view... but the nucleus was
easily mag
>1.x... approximately as bright as Procyon, Castor and Pollux.
>
>     Get ready, Ye... the time approacheth fast !!!
>
> Best...   :o)
>
>
>--
> Geoff
>
>http://home.att.net/~astropix/
>
>
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