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(meteorobs) Off-Topic: Hale-Bopp EVENING observation 23 Feb 1997
Comet Hale-Bopp in Evening sky Feb.23 @ 2235 UT
Date: Feb.23, 1997
Time: 2225 to 2235 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 middle cloud
Instrument: Tento ( USSR made ) 10x50 binoculars
Magnification:
Object(s): Comet Hale-Bopp
Description:
I put the binocular field edge on the star Epsilon Cygni, Comet Hale-Bopp
was seen at the other edge of the field as a blue-green object. The field
is about 5 degrees since I can fit Alpha and Beta Ursa Majoris in it.
In my 10x50 binoculars, I could see the nucleus area as a bright blue-green
spot and the outer coma as a fuzzy area. I could not see the tail because
of the cloud that went over Hale-Bopp and it became worse to observe
after a few minutes.
Estimate of nucleus magnitude I put it at about 1.2 mag.
The comet was about 10 degrees or so off the NNW horizion.
Sorry for the crude ascii drawing.
* Gamma Cygni
* Epsilon Cygni
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ x HB~~~~~~ ---
~~~~~~~~ |
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ cloud |
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |--- +/- 10 degrees
|
|
=========================================== horizion========================
W N
Comet Hale-Bopp is NOW visible in the evening sky in binoculars but I could
not see it with the naked-eye. And a high place with a good horizion helps.
Also a good clear night, I've been fighting with clouds each time !
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