[Chaos-l] observing query

[Jon Stewart-Taylor]

Hi all.  Walter said:

>   Is this comet really hard to find?  I swept the area in question  
> until it sparkled and I didn't see any "dust bunnies" (I might have  
> swept them away!).


Friday night at Farrington, a Raleigh gentleman was kind enough to  
track it down in what looked to be an 8" SCT.  It was not an exciting  
object.  _Very_ faint diffuse coma, with no real gradient to the  
core.  Didn't look anywhere near 6th magnitude to me: more like 7.5 or  
8.  But, i've not a lot of experience estimating, and especially not  
through that scope.  YMMV.

J.
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