I saw the comet tonight.
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Topic: I saw the comet tonight.
Posted By: BrianC
Subject: I saw the comet tonight.
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2020 at 9:16pm
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The comet Neowise is visible at about 9:30PM. My eyes spotted something, binoculars reveals it as a fine looking comet. In the Northwest, below the ladle of the big dipper, about 10 degrees above the horizon. At 10pm it set under the tree line. Supposed to be 3miles in diameter. Will be gaining altitude each night, so will be moving into darker sky and up longer. They think it may peter out, so I wouldn't wait too long.
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Posted By: john(MI)
Date Posted: 16 Jul 2020 at 1:45pm
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I've looked for it a couple times, but I haven't seen it yet. I think it's too low to see with all the trees around. ------------- D14, D17, 5020, 612H, CASE 446 |
Posted By: Stan IL&TN
Date Posted: 16 Jul 2020 at 8:25pm
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I got up at 4am last week and it looked great with binoculars. After I found it I could see it with just my eyes. Pretty cool. ------------- 1957 WD45 dad's first AC 1968 one-seventy 1956 F40 Ferguson |
Posted By: JC-WI
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2020 at 1:54am
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Early yesterday morning, this was about how it lookedtail was a little brighter than what shows here...  ------------- He who says there is no evil has already deceived himself The truth is the truth, sugar coated or not. Trawler II says, "Remember that." |
Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2020 at 2:48am
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Hey JC,,where bouts are you lookin for the comet??
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Posted By: plummerscarin
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2020 at 6:15am
| I looked last night but didn't see anything like that. That's a cool picture. I had binoculars out and saw something pass through the big dipper and then couple other objects cross paths with it. Satellites? |
Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2020 at 7:47am
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Accordin to ole JC's pic,,it looks like it might be in the western sky,,,that's amazin that he was able to get a pic of it for us,,,,
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Posted By: JC-WI
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2020 at 10:07am
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Fellows, you have to look a little left of due north at midnite to 4 am about 30 degrees above the horizon. Gotta look hard for it but once you see it, you can see it with just your eyes. The news talks about the big dipper but that is far above an left of the comet some at midnight.  Tried hard to get a picture of it but the electronic cameras wouldn't see anything even in night mode through a 1000mm Celestron Telescope with a double multiplier on it. And my old film cameras are not real conducive to posting pics to the web from them, where you hold the shutter open to allow enough light in.. So... to show you gents what I seen, I had to  'barrow' a photo of this comet from the web that was as close in position and looks as I seen, then put it through a picture program and darken it down to the color saturation to near of what I saw it as. Wish I could have captured it on my own camera and then posted, but ... it didn't work out that way. I have seen it for the last three nights now... and it is still awesome just to see it as compared to what my grandfather said when he saw Halleys Comet back in 1910 where it lit up the night sky when it passed through. Halley must have been amazing. When I seen Halley, it wasn't as magnificient as this Neowise is... well that I remember. ------------- He who says there is no evil has already deceived himself The truth is the truth, sugar coated or not. Trawler II says, "Remember that." |
Posted By: BrianC
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2020 at 11:52am
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Saw it again last night, but the clouds hid it pretty quickly. Find the pot of the big dipper and look below that 10-15 degrees off the horizon. 9:30 to 10pm.
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Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2020 at 8:33am
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Well,,Chit,,I guess I'm gonna have to make it a point to remember tamarrow as I pretty much wake up long bout midnite to 2 am, make a pot and check out whats happenin on here,,,  I remember seein the big comet bout 15-20 years ago,,,? once you found it,,it was easy to find after that,,,,,
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Posted By: JC-WI
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2020 at 10:23am
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Didn't see the comet last night, but sure had a lightning show last night, and some house rattling thunder. ------------- He who says there is no evil has already deceived himself The truth is the truth, sugar coated or not. Trawler II says, "Remember that." |
Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2020 at 10:34am
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I heard that JC. ------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: JC-WI
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2020 at 3:55pm
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I felt it Chask. ------------- He who says there is no evil has already deceived himself The truth is the truth, sugar coated or not. Trawler II says, "Remember that." |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2020 at 4:09pm
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Yeah, I felt it too..... I didn't even know about the comet until today. Supposed to be some more ugly weather here, so I'll have to wait till after all the storms go through. Should be pretty easy for me to see at night up at the farm as it's pretty dark up there. ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |