Hi All- I was going to post that folks should get up and see it, but still recovering from my all-nighter friday. I wanted to image it, so instead of getting up early for the drive to a dark sky, decided to stay up. Clear Sky Clock implied I had to go SE of Tucson if I wanted clear skies, so went to Empire Ranch near Sonoita. Skies were great, but could see the front coming in as I went to the comet. Twilight started about 5:30, I first spotted it clear the horizon at 4:30 in binoculars. As it rose the tail became more obvious in my 9X63 binocs. Started imaging (Canon 20Da) at 5:00 and continued until twilight. It is a fast moving sucker - when playing back the frames, you can see significant movement north on each frame. Anyway, never could spot it visually with unaided eye and I did try... IAU predictions say 6.5 and I believe that. I could see about 2-3 degrees of tail with the binocs and on my images (with 70mm Pronto), the blue ion tail was still going strong at the edge of the 2 degree field. Was going to go out again last night, but was still recovering my sleep and didn't have the energy. I'm comet fan and encourage all to get to a dark sky to spot it. While waiting for it to come up, was reminded that 30 years ago to nearly the day, I was waiting for Comet West to rise from where I was attending University of Iowa. It had been discovered a month or two before and as it appeared post-perihelion in the morning sky it was supposed to be bright, but we had all been burned by Kohoutek a couple years before. Anyway, while waiting, all I could see in the northeast was a darn jet contrail lit up by a nearby town. A half hour later I realized it was indeed the tail-first rising of Comet West, a truly inspiring comet. Anyway, that first sighting was 30 years tomorrow, as I recall... > This morning was supposed to be comet Pojmanski's (C/2006 A1) closet > approach to earth. I under stood it should have been just slightly > south-east of Altair at a mag of about 5.5 but, at 5 AM this Morning using > 10X50 binoculars from the West valley (Glendale) I was "Skunked" (Too much > Phoenix sky Glow?). Anyone had an observation they can share? > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.1.2/274 - Release Date: 3/3/2006 > > -- > See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please > send personal replies to the author, not the list. > > -- See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please send personal replies to the author, not the list.