[Outbackmanyep]

Good onya Ron!

Heres a sketch i did of 217P on the morning of the 24th at 4am, you should give sketching comets a go, you'd be surprised how much your eye "see's" things better than photographs......

Heres some comet obs i did on the 23rd/24th Aug.

88P/ Howell
2009 August 23.37 UT; m1= 9.2; Dia= 8’; DC= 4; 25cm L, f:5 (x39)
No tail, moonlight, slight hazy clouds at time of obs, coma elongated slightly to North.
Comp Star= TYC 6139-428-1; Method= S; Cat= TJ

C/2008 Q3 Garradd
2009 August 23.37 UT; m1= 9.1; Dia= 7’; DC= 3; 25cm L, f:5 (x39)
No tail, moonlight, coma quite faint.
Comp Star= TYC 293-30-1; Method= S; Cat= TJ


C/2006 W3 Christensen
2009 August 23.38 UT; m1= 7.8; Dia= 8’; DC= 6; 25cm L, f:5 (x39)
Coma slightly elongated to the North North-East.
Comp Star= TYC 1617-28-1; Method= S; Cat= TJ

2009 August 23.43 UT; m1= 7.8; Dia= 5’; DC= 3; 7x50 B
No tail.
Comp Star= TYC 1621-78-1; Method= S; Cat= TJ


22P/ Kopff
2009 August 23.44 UT; m1= 10.2; Dia= 8’; DC= 6; 25cm L, f:5 (x39)
No tail, central condensation small but sharply defined pseudo nucleus, with faint outer coma.
Comp Star= TYC 5819-558-1; Method= S; Cat= TJ

217P/ Linear
2009 August 23.75 UT; m1= 9.7; Dia= 4’; DC= 6; 25cm L, f:5 (x39)
Coma shows tight central condensation, slightly elongated to WSW, with tail extending in WSW direction and 8’ in length. The tail fans out gradually and has a bright central bar extending from the pseudo nucleus about a third of the tail in width and almost the full length of the tail extension. The other two thirds of the width of the tail are fainter but noticeable either side of the central portion of the tail. I could only trace 8’ of tail in length.
Comp Star= TYC 4719-1123-1; Method= S; Cat= TJ



Cheers!