Comet C/2022 E3 where are you?

[Karl Perera]

Wanted to have go imaging the comet the other night but just couldn't find it. I took a small pair of binoculars and looked to the North East and scanned around in my Bortle 5 sky but couldn't see anything. I checked after 1am. Why couldn't I see it?

Is it too faint? 

Also, can we locate the comet by using its up to date RA and DEC? Then plate solve? What about tracking?

I believe about 30-60 second exposures should be right...

Anybody actually caught sight of it or managed to image it? How did you do it?

 

[jpoulette]

We were out this morning ~4:00 am EST and it was slow going but I'm pretty sure we found it. We're about Bortle 4 here in western New Hampshire USA, and the moon was very low.

It was a balmy 19F (-7C). We were using a visual alt-az set up (still working on an imaging system): TV NP101, Big Barlow, with a 24mm Panoptic.

I suspect this (m6.67) is right on the threshold of "naked eye" territory and we figure there's plenty of time before perihelion so we're going to keep looking.

We have snow in our forecast so our next opportunity will probably be 1/23 or 1/24.

Good luck !

[Karl Perera]

I did manage to image the comet a week or two ago after locating it with my telescope. I have Bortle 5 skies. Couldn't see it in small binoculars.

I attached my stacked image below. I tried 30 and 60 second exposures.

Be interesting to see what you got.