Love this Joe! Everybody HAS to go look! You never know what you will see, and though most fizzle out, the few that don't stay with you for a lifetime. I remember Bennet (my first, amazing!) and going out to hunt West in the hills behind Edinburgh in the late 70's. West's tail covered nearly half the sky with averted vision. Hale Bopp was good too, and Halley (damp squib) of course. Neowise wasn't that bad from the dark sky of Corfu (about 4 degrees). Although I know Robert McNaught from my youth, sadly I couldn't get south to see his big discovery - definitely the best comet of the modern era. I have to make do with a signed photograph😍.
@@amp2amp800 yeah definitely anything that’s rare in the sky is I was worth trying because it is about the experience And thanks for all that great information and thanks for sharing
I saw Comet Hale-Bopp when I lived in San Francisco when it flew by. I was living in the city and had no telescope. But, I could see it high in the sky. The tail took up about 1/3 of the sky. Kinda neat.
@@AmatureAstronomer yeah I remember that one and then the year before and those two were so bright even in the zone eight or nine it was clearly seen like a photograph I was hoping this one would be similar, where I can see it from the city unlike neowise However, in another week, I am going to my zone 2 location of of course, is going to be much higher in the sky but dimmer, but I should see it in that location. I’ll try then thanks for sharing.
I'm glad you have a good luck with the weather now. Two days ago, we had some group observation at university with students. My colleague brought an ed triplet with some nice wide angle televue eyepiece, and I brought a 5 inch maksutov for Saturn and a small 7x35 binoculars. People were able to see both the comet and also Saturn's rings, and they enjoyed both. Comet was nice even with naked eyes, since I'm in a small half a million city with bortle around 6, but I probably won't see the comet anymore because of the almost constant bad weather here.
@@janomacko5764 thanks for sharing your story I am kind of considering in the next two years moving to a zone 4 at least if I finish my job until then I’m stuck in the huge city I’m in
@@janomacko5764 that’s exactly what I have always said zone four is where I think the fun starts as you say OK, that’s surprising that you saw that clear in a zone 4 but I guess there’s a lot of other factors that come in but glad that worked out. Cheers.
@@lornaz1975 yeah try it out and tell me if you see it visually of course it depends on your light pollution where you live and of course the full moon is tonight, but tell me what happens I like my two “ ep
@@lornaz1975 is that telescope focal ratio 8 to 10? Even with that low power IP, you might just barely fit it in the field view Sometimes with these big large things, you need a bit more space to kind of see the tail or something, but check it out and see how it turns out
I tried on the 17th Joe with a 14mm lens and 80mm lens DSLR crop sensor.troubled with cloud.could see arcturus and comet in 14mm but definitely not the comet of the century.hale bopp and hyakutake were much better.halleys was a flop too in 86.will try again tomorrow night.a neighbour has a western view and will let me use his garden.
@@Vic-pz5oh i agree i was also hoping to see it with my eyes but couldn’t Those two were also life times comets to me. I wait until i can see something like that again Cheers
I could see it well with a 50 mm monocular at 12-20x magnification from a bortle 6 city. But I had to find a dark place near a park where there were no street lights. Just with my eyes, I couldn’t see it.
Love this Joe! Everybody HAS to go look! You never know what you will see, and though most fizzle out, the few that don't stay with you for a lifetime. I remember Bennet (my first, amazing!) and going out to hunt West in the hills behind Edinburgh in the late 70's. West's tail covered nearly half the sky with averted vision. Hale Bopp was good too, and Halley (damp squib) of course. Neowise wasn't that bad from the dark sky of Corfu (about 4 degrees). Although I know Robert McNaught from my youth, sadly I couldn't get south to see his big discovery - definitely the best comet of the modern era. I have to make do with a signed photograph😍.
@@amp2amp800 yeah definitely anything that’s rare in the sky is I was worth trying because it is about the experience
And thanks for all that great information and thanks for sharing
I saw Comet Hale-Bopp when I lived in San Francisco when it flew by. I was living in the city and had no telescope. But, I could see it high in the sky. The tail took up about 1/3 of the sky. Kinda neat.
@@AmatureAstronomer yeah I remember that one and then the year before and those two were so bright even in the zone eight or nine it was clearly seen like a photograph
I was hoping this one would be similar, where I can see it from the city unlike neowise
However, in another week, I am going to my zone 2 location of of course, is going to be much higher in the sky but dimmer, but I should see it in that location. I’ll try then thanks for sharing.
I'm glad you have a good luck with the weather now. Two days ago, we had some group observation at university with students. My colleague brought an ed triplet with some nice wide angle televue eyepiece, and I brought a 5 inch maksutov for Saturn and a small 7x35 binoculars. People were able to see both the comet and also Saturn's rings, and they enjoyed both. Comet was nice even with naked eyes, since I'm in a small half a million city with bortle around 6, but I probably won't see the comet anymore because of the almost constant bad weather here.
@@janomacko5764 thanks for sharing your story
I am kind of considering in the next two years moving to a zone 4 at least if I finish my job until then I’m stuck in the huge city I’m in
@@JoeJaguar Bortle 4 is where the real fun begins. I was in bortle 4 in august, and I saw North America nebula even without any filter.
@@janomacko5764 that’s exactly what I have always said zone four is where I think the fun starts as you say
OK, that’s surprising that you saw that clear in a zone 4 but I guess there’s a lot of other factors that come in but glad that worked out. Cheers.
I will be trying to photograph this comet on the 21st, when it rises above the tree line to the West of my house.
@@AmatureAstronomer that would be great if you are on my Facebook group, please share it. I’d like to see it.
I forgot about the comet. I will try for it tonight. I have that Meade eyepiece. Its well built and reasonably sharp.
@@lornaz1975 yeah try it out and tell me if you see it visually of course it depends on your light pollution where you live and of course the full moon is tonight, but tell me what happens
I like my two “ ep
@@JoeJaguar I am going to tr it with my Vixen 81s. If it clears the trees.
@@lornaz1975 is that telescope focal ratio 8 to 10? Even with that low power IP, you might just barely fit it in the field view
Sometimes with these big large things, you need a bit more space to kind of see the tail or something, but check it out and see how it turns out
@@JoeJaguar Focal ratio of 7.7. With the Meade 56 and William Optics Swan 40mm 70° it gives me a 4° true field of view.
@@lornaz1975 OK I was thinking it was more like closer to an F10 so that should work pretty well. Let me know what you think.
I tried on the 17th Joe with a 14mm lens and 80mm lens DSLR crop sensor.troubled with cloud.could see arcturus and comet in 14mm but definitely not the comet of the century.hale bopp and hyakutake were much better.halleys was a flop too in 86.will try again tomorrow night.a neighbour has a western view and will let me use his garden.
@@Vic-pz5oh i agree i was also hoping to see it with my eyes but couldn’t
Those two were also life times comets to me. I wait until i can see something like that again
Cheers
@@JoeJaguar I couldn't find it visually either and I'm bortle 4.
@@Vic-pz5oh ok thats good to know thanks for sharing
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@@Minhnhan89 thanks for watching
I could see it well with a 50 mm monocular at 12-20x magnification from a bortle 6 city. But I had to find a dark place near a park where there were no street lights. Just with my eyes, I couldn’t see it.
@@3dfxvoodoocards6 yeah true finding a dark park maybe with no street lights does make a huge difference. Thanks for the update.