[Chaos-l] [Medoc-mountain-men] Comet!

[Tony Garcia]

Managed to run to Jordan lake after work and find a western view from a
boat ramp.

There was a surprising amount of random people there who just wandered over
to try and have a look.  I was glad I had the sky safari pro on my
ipad-mini which made it a lot easier to look for the comet and we spotted
it fairly soon after the crescent moon.  It was surprisingly far to the
left and nearly even w/ the moon, some maps online were a bit off I think,
but sky safari was right on.

 I think others pictures have been far more interesting than mine but its
fun to share.   Anyway, took these with - auspiciously - the comet hunter!
 All these pictures are unguided/no tracking mount, just knocked all this
together at the last minute and used my simple mount.

http://www.astrobin.com/35630/
http://www.astrobin.com/35631/

also grabbed a few pictures of the very thin crescent moon.  It was low in
the sky and warped with heat and haze, which is kind of interesting.

higher moon
http://www.astrobin.com/35632/

much lower moon
http://www.astrobin.com/35633/

My 10x50 binoculars were the nicest view.  The scope was nice, but the
binoculars were great for this.

-tonyg



On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:09 PM, RapidEye <rapideye.us at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm with Mark - too busy at work today...
> Not enough hours in the day sometimes.
> Lets hope the clouds stay away tomorrow night as well.
>
> Good job to you guys that found it.
> j
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