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Comet PANSTARRS, Anyone else seen it yet? |
 Mar 29 2013, 12:29 AM
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Mar 30 2013, 05:04 AM
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Saw it tonight! I was still pretty close to city lights, so it was not naked eye. It was a small smudge even through binoculars, but this is my first!
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Mar 30 2013, 07:36 AM
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 The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Had fantastic views Thursday night, details and pics on blogs later, but weather has been do bad here I made this for UK observers...
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Mar 31 2013, 09:23 AM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Managed to catch PANSTARRS setting and rising last night/this morning... Grabbed a few photos of it from work, during my breaktime, at around 8pm, then stayed up until 2am this morning to try and get some photos of it and M31 shining together above Kendal Castle. Must have been -4, -5 deg C when I took this photo at 3am, but definitely worth it...
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Mar 31 2013, 11:01 PM
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QUOTE (Stu @ Mar 30 2013, 07:36 AM)  I made this for UK observers... A few hours ago we drove to a good site and finally managed to see it. Thanks for the patch! |
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Apr 1 2013, 12:35 AM
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QUOTE (Stu @ Mar 30 2013, 12:36 AM)
If you see anyone with a "California" version years from now, you'll know it's a forgery. -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Apr 2 2013, 09:32 PM
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QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Mar 31 2013, 04:35 PM) If you see anyone with a "California" version years from now, you'll know it's a forgery. I second that, unfortunately. 
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Apr 2 2013, 09:52 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1597 Joined: 14-October 05 From: Vermont Member No.: 530 |
QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Mar 31 2013, 07:35 PM) If you see anyone with a "California" version years from now, you'll know it's a forgery. Depends on how many years Pan-STARRS keeps running. Maybe you'll see Pan-STARRS XVII |
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Apr 3 2013, 01:07 AM
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Apr 3 2013, 04:00 AM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
Saw clear skies on the way home tonight and was all excited that at last I would see the elusive smudge in the sky. So you can imagine I about lost my mind when just after the Sun went down a hazy cloud patch formed through Andromeda and below Cassiopeia. I am seeing beautiful clear skies EVERYWHERE except toward the W/NW. I just did some research and apparently there's is a large body of water 100 miles in that direction from where I live.
So here's an image of Pleiades since I had the camera and tripod out and had to shoot something.
Attached thumbnail(s)
-------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Apr 4 2013, 04:12 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Gorgeous view of PANSTARRS snuggling up to M31 last night...
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Apr 4 2013, 05:46 PM
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Are you still able to see the comet naked-eye, Stu? Or does it require a pretty long exposure to become visible in your images?
I, alas, ran across cloudy western skies in the evenings for the entire time PANSTARRS would have been naked-eye visible through city lights here in Minneapolis. So, your pictures (and those of others) are all I have seen of it. -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Apr 5 2013, 11:10 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 100 Joined: 25-April 08 From: near New York City, NY Member No.: 4103 |
Astro Bob's blog from Duluth, Minn., has photos and his experience with viewing the comet that may be helpful. (He has less light pollution, however.)
http://astrobob.areavoices.com/ bob (not related  bkellysky.wordpress.com |
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Apr 5 2013, 11:18 AM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
QUOTE (dvandorn @ Apr 4 2013, 06:46 PM) Are you still able to see the comet naked-eye, Stu? Or does it require a pretty long exposure to become visible in your images? I, alas, ran across cloudy western skies in the evenings for the entire time PANSTARRS would have been naked-eye visible through city lights here in Minneapolis. So, your pictures (and those of others) are all I have seen of it. -the other Doug The problem with the 'naked eye' question is it's so close to M31 that whole area of sky looks like a 'something' to the naked eye. It's easily visible in binoculars, and I'm able to capture it with exposures of just a handful of seconds at an ISO setting of 400 with an f1.8 50mm lens. -------------------- |
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Apr 5 2013, 11:53 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
...and this one taken 10pm 5th April...
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