Paul/Peter and everyone observing this comet,

Many thanks for your observations. This is turning out to be a really
nice object, well worth making the effort to observe.

I too managed to get some observations in last night (March 6) when, for
a change, it was clear at dusk here in Chelmsford.

This is a colour, wide-field image taken using a 72mm refractor and an
ASI294MC one-shot colour camera:

https://nickdjames.com/Comets/2024/12p_20240306_193839_ndj.jpg

Then, two examples of closer in taken using a 0.28m SCT + ASI6200MM.
There is some lovely detail in the inner coma and ion tail. There is
enough SNR in the image to allow use of a Larson-Sekanina filter and
that brings out a lot of features in the inner coma.

https://nickdjames.com/Comets/2024/12p_20240306_191559_ndj.jpg
https://nickdjames.com/Comets/2024/12p_20240306_1916_ndj.jpg

I managed to find the comet in small (8x30) binoculars from my garden.
It is too light polluted here to see it with the naked eye but it should
be visible from darker locations.

Keep observing this comet whenever you can! It will get harder as it
sinks into the twilight but it is worth the effort.

Nick.

On 06/03/2024 19:43, Paul Abel - paul.abel at yahoo.co.uk (via baa-comet
list) wrote:
> Hi all,
> It has been a frustrating couple of evenings with a lot of fast moving cloud and a few small holes.  I did see the comet yesterday- it was visible in my 80mm OG finder.  I made a start on a drawing but had to abandon it due to cloud cover.
> More success this evening as I did get to complete a drawing (attached).  There was a definite greenish hue to the comet and hints of a tail visible.  Attached is the observation- alas there was insufficient time to make a proper magnitude estimate but I would very roughly estimate that the comet is around Mv ~ 5.7.
> Cheers,-Paul
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