Re: Comet 17P in rare naked-eye super-outburst

"Florian" <star6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Naked eye, 10x42 binoculars, 76mm APO. I think this is about the most amazing thing i've ever seen in the sky! How can a comet do this?
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I took a break from the WS a half hour ago (go Sox!) to get a look at this now that it has cleared up pretty well overhead here in the Boston area.

Naked eye I couldn't believe that what I was looking at was a comet. In the 9x60 binoculars it was an obviously bright fuzzy. I went right for it with the red dot finder on the little 66mm ED AstroTech. Looks like a star as seen through a dewed up corrector on an out of collimation out of focus SCT. :-)

Very awesome.

-Steve P.

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