[AZ-Observing] Re: Comet Garradd and Jupiter
- From: "Wayne (aka Mr. Galaxy)" <mrgalaxy@xxxxxxxx>
- To: maddy0485@xxxxxxx, amastro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, taaaforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 11:05:10 GMT
Benson, AZ 85602
hm ph: 520-586-2244 Thanks, JD for your very nice image of Comet Garradd going
by M15. It encouraged me to check out the comet when I finally got a hole in
the cloud cover. Congratulations to Gordon for finding such a nice comet! In my
finder/binoculars the comet seemed a little bigger and fainter than M15 which
was a few degrees away on a line diametrically opposite from the star Enif. In
my 13-in telescope I saw Comet Garradd as being about the same size as M15,
having a much brighter, nearly stellar, coma which was on the NNW side of a
2.5:1 oval, no distinctive tail evident. It moved about 30arcsec in a westerly
direction in the 15 minutes I observed the comet beginning around 2:45am local
AZ time. I also enjoyed a nice view of Jupiter. It had a fairly tight grouping
of moons (Io, Callisto, and Europa) in a scalene triangle that appeared to be a
little larger than the disk of Jupiter. Ganymede was seen a little farther out
from the triangle. The NEB is still showing nice, knotty structure and is a bit
more obvious than the SEB which seems to be making a resurgence. There is an
interesting belt farther north of the NEB that looks like a faint dashed line.
Still no GRS! Has it faded that much, or is my timing bad for observing it?
Finally, it looks like Mira is making a comeback. I see it at about 4th
magnitude. It was a pleasant, calm, almost cool, night, but with high humidity.
I noticed my telescope end-cap was pretty wet when I packed up for the night,
and I heard water dripping off my garage roof. It was cloudy the entire day,
but the clouds dissipated long enough for me to observe for a little over an
hour and then they re-formed. The seeing was quite good with good transparency,
though there was a large cloud bank over Tucson brightening the skies somewhat.
Clear skies,
Wayne (aka Mr. Galaxy)
---------- Original Message ----------
From: "J. D MADDY" <maddy0485@xxxxxxx>
To: Mr Galaxy <mrgalaxy@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Comet Garradd
Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 15:09:01 -0700
I sent a reply to the group, but I received a funny message back from the
moderator saying too many lines. So, I don't know if it will go out or not.
But, I've attached a picture of Garradd and M15. It comes up early and the best
I've seen it is around 3AM. Nice and clear and dark at my location. It's nice
visually thru my 14" SCT.
JD Maddy
Clarkdale, AZ
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