As with my last post, the only reason that I have uploaded this extremely grainy image is that it may be of some interest to those who are keeping an eye on this comet. My intentions were to observe visually. I ended up taking some images in the hope that I could extract some data and estimate the magnitude of the comet.
From the visual observers point of view, this was the easiest comet to locate out of the three that I hunted down (Lemmon, Linear and Panstarrs). Starry Night V6.3 lists it at apparent magnitude 12.46. It seemed a lot brighter than this to me.
Starry Night V6.3 Tab Data: Universal Time: 8/01/2013 15:16:00 Local Time: 9/01/2013 1:16:00 AM Latitude: 27° 03' 55.0" S Longitude: 152° 46' 51.8" E Constellation name: Centaurus, The Centaur, Centauri Azimuth: 127.09 Altitude: 44.06 Elongation: 83.6° West RA (JNow): 184.26 Dec (JNow): -44.86 RA (J2000): 184.09 Dec (J2000): -44.79 Distance from observer: 1.289172008 au Distance from Sun: 1.551651855 au Orbit size: 498.48 au Angular size: 0.021 arcseconds Length of year: 11129.44 years
Last edited by Shark Bait; 10-01-2013 at 12:49 PM.
Reason: Some tab data corrected
