{"id":317,"date":"2006-10-12T21:40:41","date_gmt":"2006-10-12T21:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/?p=317"},"modified":"2014-08-07T13:08:38","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T13:08:38","slug":"comet-swan-observed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/2006\/10\/12\/comet-swan-observed\/","title":{"rendered":"Comet SWAN Observed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s two clear nights in a row! I&#8217;m just in the door after another very successful observing session but unlike <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=316\">yesterday<\/a> this one was not form the darkness of rural Ireland but from the light-polluted suburbs of Dublin (Maynooth to be precise). My target for today was the comet SWAN and also to try to track down M92 which I&#8217;d missed yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>[tags]SWAN, Comet[\/tags]<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Armed with a printout of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astronomy.ie\/comet\/SWAN.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">finder chart for SWAN from the Astronomy Ireland website<\/a> I set out with my Trusty 10&#215;50 binoculars. I was very pleasantly surprised to find the comet after only a few minutes searching from on the green in my estate. The fact that I could see it at all in the middle of a housing estate was enough to encourage me to jump on my bike and head out into the countryside away form the streetlights. I didn&#8217;t go too far, just about half a mile from the end of the last estate but it made enough of a difference to make the comet a lot easier to find and also to make it look a lot fuzzier. I couldn&#8217;t see any sign of a tail though. I heard David Moore describe this comet as a &#8216;naked eye comet&#8217; on this weeks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astronomy.ie\/AIRS\/\" target=\"_blank\">Astronomy Ireland radio show<\/a> but I just can&#8217;t match that description up to reality. This is no naked eye comet. However, it is still worth a look in even the most basic pair of binoculars.<\/p>\n<p>Having successfully found my target for the night I then had some fun and had a quick look at the double cluster and NGC957, the coat hanger, and then decided to try M92 again (now that I&#8217;d looked up it&#8217;s location again!). I&#8217;m happy to report that I found it easily this time. Good to know I wasn&#8217;t talking rubbish on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishastronomy.org\/podcast\/\">IFAS Podcast<\/a> when I was telling everyone that M92 is a binocular object in the last few shows!<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, all in all another good observing session and another Comet that I can say I&#8217;ve seen!<\/p>\n<p>P.S. I also did a very quick and very dirty sketch of the position of the comet which is shown below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image318\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/061012-cometswan.png\" alt=\"Comet SWAN 12 October 2006\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s two clear nights in a row! I&#8217;m just in the door after another very successful observing session but unlike yesterday this one was not form the darkness of rural Ireland but from the light-polluted suburbs of Dublin (Maynooth to be precise). My target for today was the comet SWAN and also to try to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[36,502,501],"series":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-astronomy","tag-astronomy","tag-comet","tag-observation-log"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t9xK-57","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7988,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}