Asteroid/comet 15th feb

[DannyHarvey]

Great capture Lukebl! There was a few breaks in the cloud over here, makes me wonder now If I missed it.

Dan

[andrew63]

I was looking with 10x50 between clearing patches of cloud - when in the area of Canes Venatici - no joy. Anyone have a sighting in binoculars?

Andrew

[Charon]

Good show Luke, at least you saw and captured a glimpse of it. No chance over here.

[John]

I picked it up a few times with my 4" refractor at 22x. I've made a report here:

[Astronolee]

Did anyone actually see anything...was nothing but thick cloud in essex...very dissapointing...role on ISON

[SteveNickolls]

No joy here either-congratulations to anyone who did.

Cheers,

Steve

[yesteryeargames]

I wish I had a go to on nights like this , a novice lost in clouds what's more of a p take Thursday was perfectly clear and Saturday is too ! Grr what rotten luck , I looked through the handle at the right time I followed it with sky safari , I live in Cornwall was u looking in the right place ?

[Stargazer33]

Sky cleared promissingly at around 7pm. By the time we had finished dinner, washed up and I was outside it was 99.5% cloud! It cleared around Ursa Major at about 22:00 but without enough stars to do an alignment, I was fighting a loosing battle and finally gave up around 23:30.

Well done to all those who saw it and those who managed to get some images.

[skybadger]

I put the TLE's for this object into both Stellarium and Sky Safari and got rather useless results

It shows the object passing through the plough on a similar rack to actual but not until sometime in April.

Must have done something wrong

Where did you get /generate the TLEs from ? I went searching for TLEs and couldn't fiind anything on Celestrak; Heavenes above and MPC only have heliocentric coords that I can see..

Cheers

Mike

[Neil_F]

I was out at a works do last night, sneaked out into the pub carpark at 21:15.........nothing but cloud FFS! At least SOME of us managed to get a peek, well done chap!

[Paul M]

Where did you get /generate the TLEs from ? I went searching for TLEs and couldn't fiind anything on Celestrak; Heavenes above and MPC only have heliocentric coords that I can see..

Cheers

Mike

If you go into the Solar System Plugin - Solar system editor- configure - import elements in mpc format - online search.

Enter the correct name for the object eg. "2012 AD14" and enter. I should download and install the orbital data and make the object available in the search menu.

The solar system plugin is a bit clunky but what can we expect for nowt!!

As already noted, Stellarium didn't make a great job of tracking this object. It was hopelessly off in timing for AD14.

It's due a common mathematical oversimplification that's present in a number of desktop planetarium packages.

[tingting44]

If you go into the Solar System Plugin - Solar system editor- configure - import elements in mpc format - online search.

Enter the correct name for the object eg. "2012 AD14" and enter. I should download and install the orbital data and make the object available in the search menu.

The solar system plugin is a bit clunky but what can we expect for nowt!!

As already noted, Stellarium didn't make a great job of tracking this object. It was hopelessly off in timing for AD14.

It's due a common mathematical oversimplification that's present in a number of desktop planetarium packages.

i just tried this but not finding anything in the search for 2012 ad14

[faulksy]

nice one luke, now i can tell peeps i have seen it lol.thanks for that