Re: Comet 177P/Barnard Magnitude Descrepancies....FOUND!

I can verify that there is a comet. Last night at a dark site(6 to 6.5). I
put my GPS Celestron Cassagrain 11"(USing RA/Dec) & a fellow other astr-nut.
Put his Dob 12"(Star Hopped) on it and found it. It was a wide faint smudge
& diffuse. Need a wide field to see it. According to starry night pro 5.1 it
was a mag 9.60. We agreed it was about a 10mag or more. Could be your focal
lenght or you need darker skies...

When does this comet get closer to us? Or is it heading out from us?...




"Stan Jensen" <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hey all, have a question for those of you who observe comets.

Comet 177P/Barnard is said to be an 8th magnitude object in Hercules
right now. At least according to Skyhound -
http://www.skyhound.com/sh/comets.html.

But Guide, Starry Night, and The Sky all show it +13th mag., and we've
looked for it the past several nights, and there's no +8th mag. comet
where it's supposed to be.

Anyone got the scoop? Maybe it's a hoax, like the Mars one.:)

S,.


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