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Date: 12 Jul 2007 00:38:29
From: Matthew Ota
Subject: Comet C/2006 VZ13 (LINEAR)
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I attempted to view Comet C/2006 VZ13 (LINEAR) this eveining from
light-polluted Los Angeles, specifically the South Bay area near
Torrance. In my 10 inch SCT, the comet was not visible even at low
power (40mm Ultrawide Meade EP). I will attempt to view it this
weekend at OPTs Southern California Astronomy Expo, where the skies
should be considerably darker.
Matthew Ota
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Date: 13 Jul 2007 06:00:41
From:
Subject: Re: Comet C/2006 VZ13 (LINEAR)
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On Jul 12, 3:38 am, Matthew Ota <otake...@bigvalley.net > wrote:
> I attempted to view Comet C/2006 VZ13 (LINEAR)
> this evening from light-polluted Los Angeles ...
> the comet was not visible ...
I saw it last night from my club's observing field in the
Boston exurbs, mag 20.1 per square arcsecond on my SQM.
I was expecting something faint and instead saw a big,
bright ball of light, absolutely unmistakable in my 70mm
refractor from 16X to 60X, and pretty easy in my 10x30
binoculars. It seemed much like M10 both in size and
in brightness. But M10 was pretty low in the sky by
then, so no doubt it seemed fainter than it would have
if it had been as high as the comet.
- Tony Flanders
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Date: 12 Jul 2007 09:30:06
From: AustinMN
Subject: Re: Comet C/2006 VZ13 (LINEAR)
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On Jul 12, 4:22 am, "RedShift40" <nospam...@telus.net > wrote:
<snip >
> then packed up as the drunks, people smashing windows, cops and girls
> screaming were ruining my evening out. Typical Wed. night here! (Did I
> mention...I have to move!) Maybe New York where there is less crime. Never
> again will I take my scope out in public. How does Starlord do it?
Location, location, location...I have lived in places where I would
not go out at night unless armed, and places where I would let my (at
that time) preteen daughters spend the night outside alone in a tent.
There are places in the world where drunks, people smashing windows,
cops and girls screaming don't ruin an evening out. In fact, they far
outnumber the places where they do.
Austin
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Date: 13 Jul 2007 03:39:37
From: mitch
Subject: Re: Comet C/2006 VZ13 (LINEAR)
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"AustinMN" <tacooper260@hotmail.com > wrote in message
news:1184257806.515236.82020@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com...
> On Jul 12, 4:22 am, "RedShift40" <nospam...@telus.net> wrote:
> <snip>
>> then packed up as the drunks, people smashing windows, cops and girls
>> screaming were ruining my evening out. Typical Wed. night here! (Did I
>> mention...I have to move!) Maybe New York where there is less crime.
>> Never
>> again will I take my scope out in public. How does Starlord do it?
>
> Location, location, location...I have lived in places where I would
> not go out at night unless armed, and places where I would let my (at
> that time) preteen daughters spend the night outside alone in a tent.
>
> There are places in the world where drunks, people smashing windows,
> cops and girls screaming don't ruin an evening out. In fact, they far
> outnumber the places where they do.
>
you describe chaos
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Date: 12 Jul 2007 09:22:13
From: RedShift40
Subject: Re: Comet C/2006 VZ13 (LINEAR)
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"Matthew Ota" <otakenji@bigvalley.net > wrote in message
news:1184225909.513291.326460@w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
>I attempted to view Comet C/2006 VZ13 (LINEAR) this eveining from
> light-polluted Los Angeles, specifically the South Bay area near
> Torrance. In my 10 inch SCT, the comet was not visible even at low
> power (40mm Ultrawide Meade EP). I will attempt to view it this
> weekend at OPTs Southern California Astronomy Expo, where the skies
> should be considerably darker.
>
> Matthew Ota
>
I just got my first clear skies this year! (I have to move)
I am at 54.5 north so it never really gets dark to the north. I took my
12.5" galaxy dob out to the local park. I started out with Venus before it
set. It is a beautiful crescent. A few (non drunk) people showed up to have
a look. I pointed to Jupiter next. It showed quite a bit of detail even
though it is so low in the sky. Seeing was about 3. Trans average also.
I waited until 12:00 to look for C/2006 VZ13. It took me about one min. to
find, it was a very diffused dim ball. Hard to say what the mag. was, but it
did stand out well in the 14 mm Antares W70 Series. I could not make out the
short tail. The sky was so bright it didn't look the usual green I am used
to seeing. I hopped over to the blue snowball, then to M13, M27, M57, M3
then packed up as the drunks, people smashing windows, cops and girls
screaming were ruining my evening out. Typical Wed. night here! (Did I
mention...I have to move!) Maybe New York where there is less crime. Never
again will I take my scope out in public. How does Starlord do it? I hope he
gets well soon. I am going to send him some money when he get's back home.
He is a braver man than me.
Stu. H.
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