Hello comet-hunters,
yesterday I sketched the comet C2011 / L4 Panstarrs. It was very hard, to find the comet near the brightened horizon. Jupiter and the moon were wachting over us from above 😉 My friends and I “scanned” the sky with our binoculars (10×50, 7×50 and a zoom). Shortly after seven o´clock p.m. we found this 2 mag bright object. We was somewhat disappointet, because we thought he was brighter and larger.
At my TMB 115/805 I used 25 – 70x with a zoom eyepiece and the 31mm Nagler. So I wondered about the little consendation head and the two shorter different long tails of the comet in the eyepiece. Most fotos shows us a slim comet with star-shaped head.
Hope you like the famous comet. There are only a few sketches in the www, but many photos 🙂
CS Uwe
Object: comet – C2011 L4 Panstarrs
Brightness: about 2 mag
Date: 15.03.2013 – 7.00 p.m.
Location: near Würzburg Germany
Conditions: – 4°C, no wind, quite air
Telescope: TMB 115/805 No. 083 with Baader Zoom eyepiece
Uwe,
That is an excellent capture of the comet near the horizon.
Frank 🙂