[AZ-Observing] Re: Comet Ikeya-Zhang - March 02

  • From: Andrew Cooper <acooper@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 12:55:45 -0700


Hmmm, haven't looked at Ikeya/Zhang in a couple weeks.  Have to go look again!

For those that don't use an SCT normally.  With the usual star diagonal
position and forehead to the body of the scope...  North is up, South is
down and east and west are reversed.

Andrew


SteveB0513@xxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> Comet Ikeya-Zhang was quite good from Vekol last night.  It is at the
> naked-eye
> threshold, easily seen with 10X70 binocs.  I observed the comet with an 8"
> SCT
> at f10 using a 32mm SWA for 64X/1.1 degree.  The comet has a fairly large,
> bright, teardrop-shaped coma on the order of 3 min diameter and a very
> bright,
> non-stellar nucleus about 20 sec in diameter (sizes are rough estimates).
> The
> tail is almost a degree long to the ENE (assuming I got those mirror image
> star diagonal directions right).
> 
> Steve Bell
> EVAC
> 
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