While attending the Stellafane ATM convention last week, I finally saw the two comets named after Andrea Boattini.
http://www.hacastronomy.com/speakers/Boattini_Andrea.htm
On Friday morning, a fellow with a very nice ATM 12.5" Dob had C/2008 J1 (Boattini) in view. The tenth magnitude object was in or near Cepheus at the time. The coma seemed rather compact.
http://www.aerith.net/comet/catalog/2008J1/2008J1.html
After leaving the Stellafane grounds in a state of exhaustion on Saturday morning, I slept for a couple of hours, dragged myself out of a very comfortable bed at the Quail Hollow Inn, grabbed my wife's 10x50 Celestron Ultima binocular, and walked out to a clearing in the woods behind the inn. It was rather dark there and after a bit of searching through Aries (I didn't have a detailed finder chart with me) I finally swept up the much brighter C/2007 W1 (Boattini), which proved to be a rather easy binocular target.
http://www.aerith.net/comet/catalog/2007W1/2007W1.html
This morning ASH President Mike Snider and I observed C/2007 W1 (Boattini) from the Naylor Observatory with the ASH 14" Meade LX200 GPS SCT. The pernicious effects of the Harrisburg light dome made the comet somewhat difficult to see.
Additional information on these comets and others currently visible is available at http://www.skyhound.com/cometchasing
Dave Mitsky
http://www.hacastronomy.com/speakers/Boattini_Andrea.htm
On Friday morning, a fellow with a very nice ATM 12.5" Dob had C/2008 J1 (Boattini) in view. The tenth magnitude object was in or near Cepheus at the time. The coma seemed rather compact.
http://www.aerith.net/comet/catalog/2008J1/2008J1.html
After leaving the Stellafane grounds in a state of exhaustion on Saturday morning, I slept for a couple of hours, dragged myself out of a very comfortable bed at the Quail Hollow Inn, grabbed my wife's 10x50 Celestron Ultima binocular, and walked out to a clearing in the woods behind the inn. It was rather dark there and after a bit of searching through Aries (I didn't have a detailed finder chart with me) I finally swept up the much brighter C/2007 W1 (Boattini), which proved to be a rather easy binocular target.
http://www.aerith.net/comet/catalog/2007W1/2007W1.html
This morning ASH President Mike Snider and I observed C/2007 W1 (Boattini) from the Naylor Observatory with the ASH 14" Meade LX200 GPS SCT. The pernicious effects of the Harrisburg light dome made the comet somewhat difficult to see.
Additional information on these comets and others currently visible is available at http://www.skyhound.com/cometchasing
Dave Mitsky
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