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Originally Posted by cometcatcher
I'm still annoyed over the cloud that caused me to miss Bradfield. I know it was low but there should have been a chance for a couple of days and those days were clouded out in that direction. The tail looked awesome in the shots I saw from the northern hemisphere.
I have a few shots of K4 Linear. Er, here's one showing antitail on Nov 5 2004.
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You would of had to be a member of the secret inner circle of aussie comet observers to have seen Bradfield 2004 F4 half decently I would think? (i am certainly not! lol ) but it was a quickie - I like those sort
I think? it was around two weeks between discovery and public anouncement of discovery/confirmation/orbit ect, by then it was virtually lost to us in conjunction, then headed north.
saw K4 at a darksite couple of times in nov 2004. Best view was also nearly my first trip out with new at the time 25x100's in good conditions and as it was a horizon job, was easy to use with the tripod, and we found out what we had been missing out on in very large bino's.
Looked awesome even at around 7th mag. i nearly fell over, I called it a delta winged beauty at the time :p , due to antitail. We were out for the leonids and machholz as well at the time, morning 20th.