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(meteorobs) Off topic- Hale Bopp Observation
Date: Feb.19, 1997
Time: 0850 UT
Location: Dalhousie University ( inside lounge looking out windows )
, Halifax, Nova Scotia, CANADA
Observer: Michael Boschat
Latitude: N 44d 39'
Longitude: W 63d 36'
Height above sea level: 58 meters
Limiting mag.: 4.5
Seeing (1 to 5 - best to worst): 2
Instrument: naked-eye, 7x50 binoculars
Magnification:
Object(s): Comet Hale-Bopp
Description:
The sky was hazy and high thin cirrus cloud was moving in from the west,
I looked out the big windows of our lounge at Cygnus, and there it was,
Hale-Bopp with the naked-eye. It looked like a star, again I estimate it
at 2.1 magnitude and blue. Of course it was still about 20 degrees off
the horizion or so and this estimate may be a bit off.
In the 7x50's it looked blue and an elongation ( tail ? ) pointing to the
south-south-west.
After that the cloud came in a bit more and the comet became dimmer and
I stopped observations.
Clear skies
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Michael Boschat ( Astronomer ) E-mail: andromed@atm.daldot ca
Atmospheric Sciences Phone: (902) 494-7060
Dept. of Oceanography FAX: (902) 494-2885
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
CANADA, B3H 4J1 ASTRONOMY Web Page: http://www.atm.daldot ca/~andromed