Comet C/2006 P1 ( McNaught )

Date: January 7, 2006

Time: 1105 UT (7:05am AST)

Place: Roof of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Instrument: Tento 10x50 binoculars and Naked-eye

Weather: Clear horizion with very few clouds, but 70km winds!


Observation: At 1105 UT I came across the comet.
Head of comet was very bright white in color and
also a small very distinctive tail about 1 degree
long pointing roughly towards the northwest.
Estimate magnitude about 0.0. Without the binoculars
I was just able to detect the comet with the naked-eye!

Truely worth biking to the university to look at in morning sky!



Clear skies
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Michael Boschat
Halifax Center - Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
Astronomy page: http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~aa063