Two comets for the price of one


Patrick Vartuli
 

If there is an opportunity and a location, I can break out the ES 20" and we can try to take a look.

Patrick 


On Wed, Feb 1, 2023, 10:52 AM jimcoble2000 via groups.io <jimcoble2000=yahoo.com@groups.io> wrote:
Oh boy. 11.9 is pretty dim. That would be a nice hat trick to get two in one. I looked at it on the sky tools chart and you are right. Pretty close. I doubt we could do it visually as 11.9 would require a big scope and a dark sky. We did see the one in Cassiopeia few weeks back at 10 something in Kent's 16 inch. I was not sure we could do that but we did. The 25 inch would be a good tool but with 25 inches comes tighter fields. A visual challenge, I would not place much money on doing but if you can do an image that would be neat.

On Wednesday, February 1, 2023 at 10:21:41 AM EST, Ian Stewart <swampcolliecoffee@...> wrote:


I was looking at my sky charts for the upcoming week and noticed that both C/2022 E3 (ZTF) and C/2022 U2 (ATLAS) were only about 44 minutes apart on the 6th of February at 7:27pm EST. May try and get a pic if the weather holds. C/2022 U2 is only listed at 11.9 so pretty dim.
Cheers
Ian


Jeff Goldstein
 

I hope so.  Such an unusual conjunction for two comets!

 

Jeff G

 

From: BackBayAstro@groups.io <BackBayAstro@groups.io> On Behalf Of Ian Stewart
Sent: Wednesday, February 1, 2023 10:22 AM
To: BackBayAstro@groups.io
Subject: [BackBayAstro] Two comets for the price of one

 

I was looking at my sky charts for the upcoming week and noticed that both C/2022 E3 (ZTF) and C/2022 U2 (ATLAS) were only about 44 minutes apart on the 6th of February at 7:27pm EST. May try and get a pic if the weather holds. C/2022 U2 is only listed at 11.9 so pretty dim.
Cheers
Ian


jimcoble2000
 

Oh boy. 11.9 is pretty dim. That would be a nice hat trick to get two in one. I looked at it on the sky tools chart and you are right. Pretty close. I doubt we could do it visually as 11.9 would require a big scope and a dark sky. We did see the one in Cassiopeia few weeks back at 10 something in Kent's 16 inch. I was not sure we could do that but we did. The 25 inch would be a good tool but with 25 inches comes tighter fields. A visual challenge, I would not place much money on doing but if you can do an image that would be neat.

On Wednesday, February 1, 2023 at 10:21:41 AM EST, Ian Stewart <swampcolliecoffee@...> wrote:


I was looking at my sky charts for the upcoming week and noticed that both C/2022 E3 (ZTF) and C/2022 U2 (ATLAS) were only about 44 minutes apart on the 6th of February at 7:27pm EST. May try and get a pic if the weather holds. C/2022 U2 is only listed at 11.9 so pretty dim.
Cheers
Ian


Ian Stewart
 

I was looking at my sky charts for the upcoming week and noticed that both C/2022 E3 (ZTF) and C/2022 U2 (ATLAS) were only about 44 minutes apart on the 6th of February at 7:27pm EST. May try and get a pic if the weather holds. C/2022 U2 is only listed at 11.9 so pretty dim.
Cheers
Ian