[AZ-Observing] Re: Deep Impact

Thanks for your reply Frank.

How did it look to you? Was it very faint, faint, easy, bright?

 From a recent LX200 list posting

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I dropped in my 32mm Wide Angle Meade, and along with the chart
on the Sky & Telescope website, and current Ephemerides off the
Harvard Comet website, I found a very small fuzzball, that I thought
might be a faint galaxy, at first.  It was located very close to the
chart, and the RA & DEC readout on the Autostar, placed it very
close to the Harvard Websites location. 

I then dropped in my StellaCam II, with the 3.3 focal reducer - -
and - - there she be !!!!!!!  Definitely no galaxy.
It had a very define nucleus.  Short and fuzzy tail.  I tried to
hook up my Sony handheld Super 8 Camcorder, (1995 model, OLD, but
still works) to the back of my 12" monitor, and I couldn't get
it recorded.  Have to figure some other way to video it.
Any suggestions?
Mike Lanska
Beautiful Simi Valley, California

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Jeff

At 16:15 -0700 6/24/05, messier wrote:
>I saw it very clearly in my 11" C11 on Memorial Day while camping on the
>Rim. I used a 40 mm Plossl.
>
>Frank
>
>>  -----Original Message-----
>>
>>  If anyone has success in seeing the Deep Impact comet this weekend or
>>  next week, I would be interested in hearing about it, how it looked,
>>  what sized telescope was used and any other information regarding the
>>  observation.
>>
>>   From several lists people seem to be having a hard time seeing it,
>>  however they can image it with a CCD camera.
>>
>>  I suspect clear dark skies are most important for this object. I
>>  tried last weekend from the mountains, but the moon was way too
>>  bright so there was no chance of me finding it.
>>
>>  Jeff
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