Asteroid/comet 15th feb

[kaybee]

Miserably cloudy here in Bucks, doesn't look like it's going to clear either.

[JamesF]

Woo hoo! Just captured it in a very brief gap in the clouds. Will post image shortly. Thank heavens for the precise co-ordinates on the NASA JPL Horizons website.

Well done, Luke. Clouded out myself now, but I'm just going to have another quick look in case anything's changed.

James

[JamesF]

Clouded out myself now, but I'm just going to have another quick look in case anything's changed.

Nope. There is the occasional gap through which I can see a star, but not enough to star-hop to the right location by

James

[Lenny147]

Yeah i spotted it through some light cloud Back in the warm

[Albenn]

Cloud, cloud and more cloud......what else?

[nightvision]

Perfectly clear here, still can't see it with bins.... one last try once I've warmed up a bit, I think it may now be too dim for bins, it moving slowly means it could be difficult to spot.

[TimR]

Cleared up nicely here and tried with binoculars but didn't manage to see it. Was looking at the Plough from 830 onwards. At least a shooting star zipped across my bins.

[homerjh]

seems clear around here (cheshire) but patchy cloud means would be a PITA to find, cant see anything with the naked eye and not yet got used to the scope to star hop proficiently.

oh, and beer probably doesnt help

[Lenny147]

I clocked it going through the Plough at 9.27

[steveb1977]

No joy here, skies clear but just could not see it.

[watersblue]

Not a glimpse. Freaked out by somebody stopping in a car (I was on a remote-ish common), telling me about a couple of escaped prisoners on the loose. Two minutes later, another car stops with 2 odd blokes in, but they just wanted to know if I spotted the asteroid. Odd blokes like me, I guess,

[DeepThought]

Crystal (ish) clear here in Portsmouth but the wife and I gave up after half an hour of trying. Sure it must have been in my eyepiece at some point but I guess it was lost to LP, the moon, and my lousy observing.

Roll on Ison

[lukebl]

Well, here it is. Literally captured in a brief gap in the clouds as you can see. 3-second exposures, starting at 21:20 15th Feb, SXVF-H9 cam, Sky-watcher ST80. Not brilliant but, hey, it's there!

[Mrlangston]

Cloudy in MK too. Has been all evening except a brief glimpse of moon on the way home from work.

When is the next near miss?.......

[steveb1977]

Yeah, I think I must have had it in the FOV as well but just could not spot it. Think i'll stick to Ceres and Vesta. In fact i have got a piece of Vesta, will just go and have a look at that.

[bish]

Nicey caught Luke.

Clouds cleared here eventually but only had my 15x70 bins to hand. Probably too faint to see with them by the time the clouds cleared. Quite misty too. Perhaps if I had had the dob up the top of the garden and a more detailed map might have stood a chance.

[majapala]

It's a lot better than what I saw!

[DaveGarland]

Well, here it is. Literally captured in a brief gap in the clouds as you can see. 3-second exposures, starting at 21:20 15th Feb, SXVF-H9 cam, Sky-watcher ST80. Not brilliant but, hey, it's there!

Good work fella!

[iswise]

Never cleared here - but saw it on the news just now (filmed from Oz) And also some amazing footage of a meteorite which arrived in Russia this morning in most spectacular fashion - worth looking out on news shows or u tube.

[yesteryeargames]

Cloudy horrible here waste of time , I did see 3 shooting stars going through the plough tho ,

I'm not sure if I found it I aimed best I could I saw a grey smudge for about 30 seconds. ? Would it have looked like that through. 18 mm eyepiece or just a bright dot ?

[kaybee]

Well, here it is. Literally captured in a brief gap in the clouds as you can see. 3-second exposures, starting at 21:20 15th Feb, SXVF-H9 cam, Sky-watcher ST80. Not brilliant but, hey, it's there!

Nicely done Luke. Bring on Ison!

[JamesF]

Well, here it is. Literally captured in a brief gap in the clouds as you can see. 3-second exposures, starting at 21:20 15th Feb, SXVF-H9 cam, Sky-watcher ST80. Not brilliant but, hey, it's there!

Very neatly done, especially given that the conditions were clearly not in your favour.

James

[Bavchouhan]

Went out and had patchy cloud. Took a serried of 15 sec exposures I think 45 in total with a 100mm lens f 2.8 ISo 400. Although we thought we saw it I have a stacked pic with a line going from bottom leftish to midway not sure if that was it I will try and upload pic to here if I can

[Bavchouhan]

FYI I was looking towards urser major at the handles. The vid above shows what looks like prions belt. So I was probably looking in wrong direction. Based in leicester

[Bavchouhan]

have a looknot sure if it is but this is my first attempt at doing any astro type photography.