Asteroid 2012 DA14

[Moonshane]

I agree John - pretty impressive in bins. as usual all the experts seem to have over-exaggerated the ease of which this object would be seen by 'everyone' with most suggesting it was an easy binocular object for the average person. maybe from pristine, transparent skies.

[Stu]

I think earlier on it would have been possible for me (if it hadn't been cloudy!) but by 9pm or so it was below mag 9 and my bins run out of steam at about 8.8 or so. Obviously the extra aperture of the 15x70's was enough to do the trick but still pretty tough to spot I imagine.

Stu

[furrysocks]

Great value, those Revelations

Last night, instead of expressing wonder at seeing the craters and mountains of the moon around the terminator, being able to count the moons around Jupiter and so on, my 4yo simply described to me the effects of CA and went back inside.

[steveb1977]

Well done. I just couldn't spot it. Cloud was in and out and there was a bit of haze. I think I might have over estimated how bright it would be and missed it.

[SDM]

I'm a bit late on this discussion but well done. I stood outside for 3 hours with my Father-in-law. We spent the whole time waiting for holes in the cloud to appear then staring at them like mad trying to spot the thing. Ended up with bins only as my scope got too dewed up. No sighting though.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Great report. Nice to hear someone has seen it. I missed it through a combination of clouds and traffic jams on the German autobahn