Brian, I saw the tail in the east at 4am, but I'm on the coast with only three or 4 blocks of sparse suburban lights before the darkness of the ocean. Where you're at, with the entire city to your east, you may have little chance of seeing Lovejoy.
By 4.45am the approaching dawn had washed out any view of the entire comet and tail, so I'm hoping for a better view as Lovejoy gets further from the sun, and rises in a darker sky. It's impressively big, but still quite faint in the pre-dawn sky, less distinct than the Milky Way at present. It seems like a searchlight beam at a grreat distance. regards, Anthony "Of what use is lens and light to those who lack in mind and sight" (Anon) On 25 December 2011 05:48, Brian Walters <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well, I tried but it's obvious I need to be up a lot earlier. > > At 5 AM, the eastern sky was clear but too bright to make out any deep > sky objects apart from the two pointers of the Southern Cross. It looks > as if I need to be up around 3 AM to have any chance of seeing Lovejoy > (the comet not Peter...). Unfortunately, I don't have an unobstructed > horizon here so I may be struggling to see it anyway. > > > > Cheers > > Brian > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
