Current Brightest comet

kochu · Post by **kochu** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 1:28 pm

Hi all,

Details of current brightest comet

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observin ... 15427.html

Kochu/14-7-07

Post by **Airconvent** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 2:44 pm

wow...that's today!!
thanks Kochu. if sky good, will pop out with my bino to look for it...

Post by **Airconvent** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 1:43 pm

Ursa Major region was cloudy last night...all I could see were clouds...
will try again tonight. Anyone tried last night? :roll:

Clifford60 · Post by **Clifford60** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 12:20 am

Another bad night, nothing to see up there.

Post by **Airconvent** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 3:31 am

Clifford60 wrote:Another bad night, nothing to see up there.

yup.....

Post by **weixing** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 6:33 pm

Hi,
Below and attach is the position chart of Comet LINEAR (C/2006 VZ13) from 16 Jul 2007 to 29 Jul 2007.

Good luck and clear sky to the North!

Have a nice day.

Clifford60 · Post by **Clifford60** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 12:46 am

Tonight (last night) there was about 2~3 hrs of "clear" sky around Bootes thru Ursa Major from 9pm+ to 12mn, so did anyone saw the comet. Tried but can't find it

Post by **weixing** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 1:30 am

Hi,
I was observing from 20:30 to 23:00 in Tampines and it's was very clear with some patch of cloud passing by.

I try to look for the comet with my Vixen 80mm F5 scope, but no luck... I think need to use a very detail star chart to pin point the location to increase the chance of seeing it as suggest by rlow and my 80mm scope is just too small.

Anyway, I saw the brightest part of the milky way, the Sagittarius Star Cloud (M24) area, through my 7x35 bino and 80mm scope. The milky way was very obvious in the bino as it appear as a faint white stretch against the light blue background and it span around 15 degree. Also, saw 3 bright meteor... 2 bright one (one through my 80mm scope) and a faint one.

Other objects seen (quick scan) using my 80mm scope was M57 Ring Nebula, M6, M7, M8, M22 and Omega Centauri . All the objects except M57 can also been seen using my 7x35 bino. Also, M8 nebulousity was very obvious tonight even through the 7x35 bino without any LPR/UHC filter.

Just hope that Friday/Saturday night can be as clear as tonight.

Have a nice day.

rlow · Post by **rlow** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 1:09 pm

I will give it a try to search for this elusive target from tonight onwards if the sky is clear. I will be using a 11"f/5 with a 15x80mm RACI finder. Anyone who is interested can join me at my office near Outram MRT.

Canopus Lim · Post by **Canopus Lim** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 1:49 pm

Yup it was clear last night and I did some observation at home. I did not have the chart so did not search for the comet.

Is the redline the tail direction of the comet?