Tuesday, November 6, 2018

Misc Notes on Wind and Approaching Comet

Shooting Angelfish Nebula.    Very windy conditions.   Seeing is horrible and guiding is bad.   Straight up Mirfak is twinkling and blinking at times.

Not much to report but general misery.

Took about 20 minutes of 46P/Wirtanen earlier and the guiding was down in the 4 arc second range.   Stars seemed out of focus even though bahtinov mask was used.   Oh well.

46P/Wirtanen presents as dim and green.   Little to no tail visible.   I'm thinking this will be one of the those fat, wide comets when it's near earth in December.

My super general guess is still mag 9 - 10 right now.

Still need to make a wooden makeshift laptop box for this windy weather.

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