Comet C/2011 L4 PanSTARRS
Location: Pesaro
Date: 16/03/2013, sketched from 18:50 to 19:10, local time.
Black pencil on white paper
It has been really difficult to find the comet it in the evening sky:
no stars around to use for reference and apparently invisible to naked
eye. Once found it was indeed barely visible with naked eye, not to
everyone though. I made this sketch trough the telescope, fortunately
a star was visible next to the comet trough the scope, it should be
HIP2671, according to stars visible in photographs took by friends at
the same time (this is consistent with coordinates of the comets given
by JPL Horizon’s ephemeris for that time)
Aldo
Well done Aldo, it´s exactly the way I saw … and sketched PanStarrs.
The visual representation we made looks slightly different than photos, apart for a second tail, photos are some time more symetric that our sketches.
Try again to catch it, yesterday evening the comet , staying in the sun light, was still very nice.
Michel
Aldo,
I like this closeup sketch of the comet in the west.
Wonderful work.
Frank đŸ™‚
Bravo Aldo!!Io posterĂ² il mio fatto da Saltara col binone 25×100,guarda sulla mia pagina fb!
Grande!
Ciao,Giorgio.