New Comet Now Visible to Naked Eye

Yahoo ^ | December 8, 2004 | Robert Roy Rritt

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Some of the Makusov-Caselgrain hybrids are very nice and portable. One of my scopes is a 127mm MC with equitorial and slew that's perfect for johhny-on-the-spot viewing and it's great to travel with. Setup is about 7 min. It's the cooldown that's the time sink. :-)

ThinkinGal, Glad to be an activated fuzzball and nice to see you again.

[Central Scrutiniser]

Yeah, I gotta get a computerized scope, this one I have is good, but I have never been able to get it balanced correctly enough to follow the stars correctly, plus, you have to set the Lattitude on it manually, using a screw. But, its 1980 technology.

As for the comet, we have been raining and flooding all week here in Phoenix, not good enough to bring out the scope.

[dirtboy]

New Comet Now Visible to Naked Eye

Yeah, now all we need is for the friggin' cloud cover to abate in the NE. I'm looking forward to seeing this comet near the Plieadeas - but you have to be able to actually see the sky first.

[SamAdams76]

I tried looking at it just now but everytime I turned up, the snowflakes kept getting in my eyes. Maybe tomorrow night.

[flair2000]

I've had the same problem here in VA. I followed Machholz about every night from the bottom of Orion up through Taurus with my binoculars, but it has been cloudy for the last week.