Comet 289P Blanpain

[Froeng]

Hi All,

has anyone had a chance to see this?

SkySafari says its -1.6mag!!!

Edited December 21, 2019 by Froeng

[John]

It seems to be around magnitude 18.5 according to the Sky Live data:

https://theskylive.com/289P-info

 

 

[Davey-T]

Too low from here for me.

Dave

[don4l]

The reports of Mag -1 are just wrong unfortunately.  They appear to emanate from a bug/error at the MPC (minor planets centre) who provide the data for CdC and others. 

 

This is a terrible pity because it is due to pass right in front of NGC2403 on the night of 23(I think) of January.  I was going to book the next day as holiday so that I could stay up to photograph it.  Now, it doesn't look like it will be worth doing. [sigh]

 

[jonathan]

I just had a look for this comet tonight (before the clouds rolled in), it's currently in Cassiopeia so ought to be easy to find but I suspect it's gone to ground.  Has anyone managed to observe it visually?  I thought it might be a binocular or small telescope object, but maybe not now.

[PeterW]

I would buy another eyeballing this a beer... way too faint! http://www.aerith.net/comet/catalog/0289P/2019.html
 

Peter

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

The Skyhound Comet Chasing site didn't list it, which usually means it is very faint

[Davey-T]

Took some pictures of the bit of sky it's in the other night, haven't looked at them yet.

Dave