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chrisrnuttall
Professor Emeritus

Reged: 12/29/10

Loc: York, England

Comet PanSTARRS 13th March new

#5736443 - 03/16/13 02:41 PM Attachment (33 downloads)

Hello all

I have tried to observe Comet Panstarrs every evening since the 10th, but have only succeeded once due to cloud.

Here is a sketch and a couple of photos from Wednesday evening.
The comet was easy to find in my 70mm binoculars but impossible with the naked eye - my skies are never all that transparent, I think due to only being 8mtrs above sea level in an area which should be marshy if it weren't for the activities of farmers draining it.
Anyway, the 'nucleus' was bright and compact with a fuzzy coma three times its diameter, and a fairly long and fat, but faint, tail with a slightly brighter central stripe.

The photos were taken with my lumix DMC FZ150, 5 secs, f/5.6, iso 100. The full zoom one has been enhanced in GIMP.

Cloudy again tonight!

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chrisrnuttall
Professor Emeritus

Reged: 12/29/10

Loc: York, England

Re: Comet PanSTARRS 13th March new

[Re: chrisrnuttall]
#5736444 - 03/16/13 02:42 PM Attachment (15 downloads)

photo

Edited by chrisrnuttall (03/16/13 02:42 PM)

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chrisrnuttall
Professor Emeritus

Reged: 12/29/10

Loc: York, England

Re: Comet PanSTARRS 13th March new

[Re: chrisrnuttall]
#5736447 - 03/16/13 02:43 PM Attachment (12 downloads)

photo 2

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PeterDob
professor emeritus

Reged: 07/29/05

Loc: Carù, Italy

Re: Comet PanSTARRS 13th March new

[Re: chrisrnuttall]
#5736451 - 03/16/13 02:44 PM

Superb, Chris! Both the drawing and the picture are absolutely beautiful and are very much like my observation yesterday. Congratulations!

Peter

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JeanB
Pooh-Bah

Reged: 07/11/11

Loc: Montreal, Canada

Re: Comet PanSTARRS 13th March new

[Re: PeterDob]
#5736548 - 03/16/13 03:52 PM

Indeed Chris, this is a superb sketch and a nice set of photos.

Jean

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frank5817
Postmaster

Reged: 06/13/06

Loc: Illinois

Re: Comet PanSTARRS 13th March new

[Re: JeanB]
#5737236 - 03/16/13 08:52 PM

Chris,

Excellent sketch and fine photos of our western sky visitor.
Thanks for posting.

Frank

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Chopin
Canis Insanus

Reged: 02/03/05

Loc: In the doghouse.

Re: Comet PanSTARRS 13th March new

[Re: frank5817]
#5737289 - 03/16/13 09:08 PM

Beautiful detail in your sketch, Chris! Delicate pencil work, my friend.

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Aquarellia
sage

Reged: 10/27/12

Loc: Val d'Issole, Provence, France

Re: Comet PanSTARRS 13th March new

[Re: Chopin]
#5737790 - 03/17/13 12:29 AM

Lovely Chris, nice sketch and happy to know that you were able to observe near this nice city of York.

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Jef De Wit
Carpal Tunnel

Reged: 03/06/09

Loc: Hove, Belgium

Re: Comet PanSTARRS 13th March new

[Re: chrisrnuttall]
#5738727 - 03/17/13 02:21 PM

Nice sketch!

Quote:

tail with a slightly brighter central stripe

Interesting, most observers see a brighter right side of the tail.

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chrisrnuttall
Professor Emeritus

Reged: 12/29/10

Loc: York, England

Re: Comet PanSTARRS 13th March new

[Re: Jef De Wit]
#5739307 - 03/17/13 06:15 PM

yeah, I realise that, it was all very tenuous against the brightly lit and slightly murky horizon, so I suppose I may have got it wrong, I hadn't seen many other decent sketches or photos before Wednesday afternoon and it's what it looked like to me at the time.

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