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Re: (meteorobs) Hale/Bopp Obser Feb 9 ZAYGE
George, I never realized you had a 10" SCT. Do you do much deepsky with it?
Off-Topic Lew
At 12:23 PM 2/9/97 -0500, GeoZay@aol.com wrote:
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>Feb 9, 1997
>I made this mornings observation of comet Hale/Bopp from my La Mesa work
>place on Mt. Helix. The skies were clear, but due to the surrounding city
>lights in the vicinity of the comet, My Sky Limiting Magnitude was an
>approximate 4.5. Using my 14X100 binoculars with it's 3.3 deg field, I
>estimate the comets visible tail length to be near 1.7 deg. As for magnitude,
>I again used Gamma Cygni for my reference star. My magnitude estimate for the
>comet's nucleus and coma is in the range of 1.8 to 2.0. The nucleus still
>appears circular. I can still see a small gap directly behind the coma that
>quickly gets sealed off where the 2 sides of the tail meets. I definitely
>wish to be at my Descanso observing site under darker skies. Hopefully soon
>the comet will have moved suffieciently to clear a certain tree that's in
>line with my telescope. Then I will be able to take some longer guided
>photographs thru my 4 and 10 inch SCT's.
>George Zay
>Long: 116 deg West
>Lat: 32 deg North
>La Mesa, Calif
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