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Old 07-19-2020, 08:26 AM
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LOOONNG exposure time required... best if you have a 'clock mount" type telescope mount you can put the camera on to compensate for the Earth's rotation... if not it'll smear on an exposure over a minute or so... Takes a LONG time to collect enough light to actually see the thing.

We looked at it night before last, took awhile for us to find it here on the BIL's farm in N. Indiana, we weren't out at a good time (still a bit too light) and it was some high clouds to the NW where it's in the sky... Keira could look straight at it see it clearly, but I've been welding flashed too many times I couldn't see it looking straight at it, but if I looked slightly to one side or the other I could see it clearly. Just got my new glasses too so that was nice. BIL and Betty could see it pretty good, but my SIL couldn't really see it, her eyes are worse and her glasses are fairly old.

Last night was much better-- went out a little bit later, somewhat darker out and MUCH easier to see and brighter! VERY impressive looking last night! While we were out there, the ISS flew over fairly low in the NW sky, coming in from the west and departing to the north as it flew over the Great Lakes into Canada... we were still watching it well after it crossed over the Canadian border... I was following it on my ISS app that shows the current position of the ISS at all times and usually the external camera feed when it's turned on. Heavens Above app told me it was coming up so I pointed it out to everyone. Would have been a NEAT pic if one could have caught the ISS and comet in the same frame, though the exposure time required to get an image of the comet would likely have made the ISS into a "streak" LOL

Wanted to see it again tonight, but it was pretty hot here in Indiana today and VERY humid, and there was nothing but wall to wall thick high level clouds when we got back to the farm tonight, just before dark... so no joy. Maybe tomorrow.

Need to get the binocs out... definitely would be better. Too bad my telescope is in Texas...

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It's been cloudy here EVERY evening.
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Old 07-19-2020, 12:39 PM
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It's been cloudy here EVERY evening.
Same here ... I'm going to check again tonight.
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LOOONNG exposure time required... best if you have a 'clock mount" type telescope mount you can put the camera on to compensate for the Earth's rotation... if not it'll smear on an exposure over a minute or so... Takes a LONG time to collect enough light to actually see the thing.

Free software is available on all OS platforms that will stack individual short exposures. You don't need to track on anything but the faintest objects now days. Anything visible to the naked eye like this comet will only take a few seconds worth of imaging to get a decent exposure.
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3000% humidity is really lousy especially when temps are around 1000°
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3000% humidity is really lousy especially when temps are around 1000°

Don't I know it! It's not even 10:00 and we already have a legit heat index of 100°. I'm sure it will hit 1000° by the end of the day.
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It was too humid/hazy here to see it last night.
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Don't I know it! It's not even 10:00 and we already have a legit heat index of 100°. I'm sure it will hit 1000° by the end of the day.


Yeah, we've been roasting and boiling in the heat and humidity down this way the past solid week. Dangerously high heat indexes, even for here (well above 100 heat index) and this entire week through the next coming weekend ALL looks to be carbon copies of each other. Ahhh... summertime in the south....

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Ahhh... summertime in the south....

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I can relate. I lived in Orange Park FL for a couple of years in the 1980's. It would get.............................."sticky".
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