Wow, a 30" from the top of La Palma, shouldn't think visual gets any better than that. My 12" travel scope from just over a 1000 metres on La Palma often outperformed my 24" in the UK on low surface brightness objects such as Palomar globulars.

Andrew

-----Original Message-----
From: baa-comet@simplelists.com [mailto:baa-comet@simplelists.com] On Behalf Of Nick James
Sent: 19 September 2023 10:43
To: baa-comet@simplelists.com
Subject: Re: [BAA Comets] C/2023 P1 (Nishimura) at perihelion +1d

Andrew,

Yes, the Vistor Centre is an excellent place to observe from but you need to book your spot or the security guard won't let you in.
Surprisingly there have been only five people there for the last few nights but one of them had driven a 30-inch Dob over from the Netherlands. The views in that were pretty stunning.

I tried looking for the comet in binoculars but the sky was just too bright that low down.

Nick.

On 19/09/2023 10:09, Andrew Robertson - andrew at fast-mail.net (via baa-comet list) wrote:
> Very impressive Nick and well done for capturing from the visitor centre. The last time I was up there (pre-covid) the visitor centre still hadn't opened.
>
> Andrew

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