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(meteorobs) Off-topic: Hale-Bopp seen in evening sky!
Date: Feb.20, 1997
Time: 2230 UT
Location: 5th Floor apt, Halifax, Nova Scotia, CANADA
Observer: Michael Boschat
Latitude: N 44d 39'
Longitude: W 63d 36'
Height above sea level: 58 meters
Limiting mag.: 3.0
Seeing (1 to 5 - best to worst): 2 with thin cirrus!
Instrument: 10x50 binoculars
Magnification:
Object(s): Comet Hale-Bopp
Description:
I put the binocular field edge on the star Epsilon Cygni then moving
slowly at an angle I saw Comet Hale-Bopp as a blue
fuzzy star in my 10x50 binoculars. I could see the nucleus area as a bright
spot and the outer coma as a fuzz, a very short tail was noticed pointing
almost straight up.
It was bright enough that it was visible through the thin cirrus cloud
near it, the comet was about 15 degrees or so off the NNW horizion.
Sorry for the crude ascii drawing.
* Gamma Cygni
* Epsilon Cygni
/ tail
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~x HB ~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ cirrus cloud
=========================================== horizion========================
W N
So, Comet Hale-Bopp is NOW visible in the evening sky, but you will need
to fight with a late setting Sun :(
Clear skies
__________________________________________________________________
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