Comet C/2012 K1 PANSTARRS
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This is an easy comet. It's quite easy in my 14" from Va Beach skies even with the full moon up. Look high in Bootes for the 9.8 magnitude comet.
Thanks Roy Differient for alerting me to it.
Kent Blackwell
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Roy Diffrient
Um, Kent, the comet I mentioned was C/2014 E2 Jacques, a new one in Puppis
at mag 9.8. Sky Tools says Jacques is larger (6.3’) than C/2012 K1
PANSTARRS (2.4’ at mag 9.5), so Jacques will probably be a bit less obvious (but
it’s getting brighter), however should still be easy. In a few nights when
the moon gets out of the way, both comets should be very nice at about 9 PM, but
in nearly opposite azimuth directions.
Roy
From: kent@...
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2014 10:17 PM
To: backbayastro@...
Subject: [backbayastro] Comet C/2012 K1 PANSTARRS This is an easy comet. It's quite easy in my 14" from Va Beach skies even with the full moon up. Look high in Bootes for the 9.8 magnitude comet. Thanks Roy Differient for alerting me to it. Kent Blackwell
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Puppis was behind a tree for me last night but no doubt both should be visible even from light-polluted skies with a moderate size telescope. C/2012 K1 PANSTARRS was easily visible from my driveway in Virginia Beach with the nearly full moon just rising. I can't wait to see them in a dark sky when the moon gets out of the way. Kent Blackwell
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Paul
I was able to view (just barely) PANSTARRS w/ my 8" scope from Yorktown, even with the Full Moon. Thanks for the suggestion. Hope to check it out again along with Jacques next new moon. Puppis is too low at my house and it is also made more difficult to see by the air force base sky glow.
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 2:34 PM, <kent@...> wrote:
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