I CAN SEE COMET NEAT!@!

kcy · Post by **kcy** » Sun May 09, 2004 8:26 pm

HEy GUys!

So lucky today the sky cleared at the east and can see tons of stars, so I went to my kitchen window and tried to find COMET NEAT with my 12X25 bino... And Guess wad?? I've found it! It was so easy man..Just find canis minor, follow the direction of prycon, up to a triangle of stars, and look down from to the left hand side...Muwahahaha..If the sky stays up I'm going to observe in SP tml evening with my mewlon~ =D~~ ~

P.S Anyone Imaging NEAT? PLs POst!

Post by **acc** » Sun May 09, 2004 9:17 pm

Juz came back from ob session. NEAT was BRIGHT and was easy to spot through the portaball, and the characteristic blunt head of the comet is fairly obvious though I couldn't make out any extensive tail. Observed it long enough to see it move against the background of stars. super!

clear skies!
cc

sojourn88 · Post by **sojourn88** » Sun May 09, 2004 10:12 pm

Just back from observing NEAT in Bishan(9May2004). No tail observed, but the head is a fairly large cotton ball...shiok! But at around 8:30, the clouds came in and decided to pack up. after packing, the clouds clear again! ;-(

harlequin2902 · Post by **harlequin2902** » Mon May 10, 2004 1:10 am

Yup, I saw it too through my 70mm Refractor, set up by the kitchen window. Very nice !

ykchia · Post by **ykchia** » Mon May 10, 2004 1:16 am

Hi :

Yes , Neat was really neat! A short fanout tail ... easily visible in binos.. I was doing video recording at a nearby field. Tonight Image can be found at end of this page link..

http://www.ykchia.com/omega_centauri.htm

Was viewing the Centarui A Galaxy close to mid-night - the 'central' band was clearly visible on video! ( through C8 + Mintron)

rgds
ykchia

ariefm71 · Post by **ariefm71** » Mon May 10, 2004 1:16 am

Saw it too through my 8" SCT in Tampines. Got tail, but not very extensive.

Post by **Airconvent** » Mon May 10, 2004 3:03 am

As i suspected, everyone was looking at Neat...me too!
I remembered it being in Canis Major a few days ago, so proceeded to search for it using my bino but could not see it anywhere. After 20 min of futile search, got fed up, went back home, took my ETX105EC to my multistorey carpark for a peek. Just as I completed alignment and was commanding my goto to Neat, I got a call from CC to clarify it was not 10 deg west of Procyon instead! No wonder I could not find it near Sirius. Silly me. The ETX was spot on (loaded Q4, T7 and Bradley into my autostar a few weeks back). A glowing ball , resembling the globular Omega Centauri but more fuzzy and brighter. No tail could be seen. From the dim image, I gave up trying to photograph it as my camera would not have been able to pick up the faint fuzzy ball.
It was an exhilirating experience as this is the very first comet I have seen!
I've lived through Halley, Hale Bopp but at the time, had not been "awakened" to astronomy yet...so wasted the opportunity.

Can anyone confirm that from here on, Neat will move further away and become fainter and fainter? How high will it go before it moves back down?

rich

chrisyeo · Post by **chrisyeo** » Mon May 10, 2004 3:10 am

Caught it from home! Seemed to have a pinpoint core. Can't make out any tail but the diffuse glow ('cotton ball') was assymetrical, extending further towards the tail end compared to the front end.

Should be an easy target for anyone with binos.