Hi Mike & All,
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Originally Posted by iceman
yeh it's much fainter than a shadow transit these days. Anthony (bird) has a recent image in the Solar System forum which shows how it currently looks.
It would be near impossible to observe visually, now.
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Difficult I think, but not impossible. Having said that, its pretty clear that icytailmark has seen a moon shadow. I last saw the impact site on 20th August at Mudgee with 46cm at x247 in goodish seeing. It was a little difficult to separate from its surroundings but looked like two adjacent, mod elongated, smallish, greyish, slightly darker smudges with diffuse edges and consistent shade & colour (not darker at centre). They were connected by a short thin wisp.
That was nearly 2 weeks ago now though ...
Best,
Les D