It is getting brighter rather than bigger, easy with 7x50s now as a very small disk. It would possibly be naked eye if it were higher above the horizon. No...
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Hi All, First clear view of a tail on comet Pojmanski this morning, using 25x100 binoculars. This comet is in the mid sixes in magnitude now and should soon be...
Hi all, Finally got some nice cloud free skies!!! *YAY* Went out with a friend and observed Pojmanski from a dark sky site near Adelaide, Australia near dawn. ...
Forgot to say attempted to see it naked eye a few times including when at its highest - couldnt be sure if did or not, ran out of time with twilight attacking...
Hi all, last night (centred on Tuesday 08.60 February UT) I imaged Comet 73P (Schwassmann-Wachmann) with my 16" f4.5 Newt and a Canon 10D DSLR. The FOV is...
Hi all, FWIW - I was messing around with a Canon 350D at the dark site whilst there this morning just gone, only using a tripod, and no remote, plus hand/eye...
Hi John, I don't see the object to the right that you are referring to. My monitor is calibrated so I see 16 gray scale tiles. Could you perhaps annotate it? ...
Kearn, That is the best shot I've seen yet. As a beginner, I see images that mean very little to me because I am not familiar enough with the other stars in...
Hi Larry, and thankyou! :-) we here at southern-x are the horizon and the visual obs reality specialists ;-) You should be able to pick up A1 from around the...
Hi All, After reading Kearn's post, I remembered that I had one i took with the Nikon D100 which I forgot to post here. It's the second one that says it's...
2006 Feb. 9.85 UT: m1=6.0, Dia.=3.3', DC=7, Con Stoitsis, Clonbinane, (Victoria Australia) 20cm 45x, LM in the SE +5.7, very faint tail visible, 8' long,...
Hi all, Just in from quick impromtu observation of A1 with 20x80's Binoc's, hand held. definitely continues to brighten! very bright (almost brilliant but...
Hi all, I visually observed C/2006 A1 (Pojmanski) this morning with a nearly full Moon in the sky - and also imaged it with a 8" f4.6 Vixen RS200 Newtonian... ...
John, nice report and cool image to go with it. Unfortunately I am still waiting for it to get farther north for me to be able to see it from my viewing...
I think my best bet to see this comet is to get up just before sunrise on the morning of Feb 26th (Sunday) at 5:30am, and start looking low in the horizon in...
Is there any hope for this comet to put on a nice show in may 2006 in the northern hemisphere? I havent heard anything at all on this but it sound exciting...
My best views have been through 25x100 (4inch) binoculars. I was seeing close to a one degree tail before the Moon got too bright, by the 26th you should do...
Hi all, well, a 22 metre tree got in the way of Comet Pojmanski, so I cut it down! The story and photos (and my reasoning) of the decapitation can be seen at: ...
Hi guys, Since all the planets except Pluto orbit the sun on the same plane, do all comets also approach the sun on that same plane? Thanks, Randall...
Hi Randall, ... No -- comets can come in from any angle and direction. Comets originate from a region far out from the sun called the Oort cloud. Comets in ...
Simple answer, no. Have a look at http://www.quantumhyperspace.com/Astronomy/OrbitViewer/index.jsp This is a neat little 3D orbit viewer which you can rotate...
When you guys see Pojmanski in the upper half of the world, let us know, along with your latitude and how high in the sky you saw it. I'm at 30 degrees, 30...
Comet C/2005 E2 McNaught is the brightest comet in the sky at present observable from Northern Illinois. This is a rapidly moving comet, tooling along at 2.1...
I love hunting comets, but I haven't been able to do so until recently. Plus now I have some serious aperture to throw at it. Here's a question for ya'll...
Steve, My daughter and I were up this morning at 5:00 am searching the horizon for it, but couldn't find it with binoculars. We had to give up our search at...
Larry, According to SkyTools, tomorrow morning, February 23rd at 5:24 AM, Comet Pojmanski will be 5 degrees above the horizon and 12 degrees directly below...
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