Daytime obs of Comet McNaught

After seeing a similar post yesterday, it cleared today so I decided
to try to find it during daytime. I found thepproximate coordinates
(20 Hr, -18 degrees), and found where that was in relation to the sun
from my location using Rob Matson's Skymap.

It was placed such that I could stand on the north side of my house to
block the sun then look a bit to the left (east). It took a few
minutes to find it partly due to the ice crystals/snow coming off the
roof but at about 1057 AM local MST (1757 UT on 13 Jan 07) I found it
in 7x50 binoculars.

One attempt to see it visually after that failed but I will try again
soon.

Ron Lee

I was able to get to the comet by using TheSky version 6 and slewing to
the Sun (with a solar filter installed, of course). I then slewed to
teh comet and removed the filter, and there it was.....in broad
daylight...

Matthew Ota

Ron Lee wrote:
After seeing a similar post yesterday, it cleared today so I decided
to try to find it during daytime. I found thepproximate coordinates
(20 Hr, -18 degrees), and found where that was in relation to the sun
from my location using Rob Matson's Skymap.

It was placed such that I could stand on the north side of my house to
block the sun then look a bit to the left (east). It took a few
minutes to find it partly due to the ice crystals/snow coming off the
roof but at about 1057 AM local MST (1757 UT on 13 Jan 07) I found it
in 7x50 binoculars.

One attempt to see it visually after that failed but I will try again
soon.

Ron Lee

I was able to get to the comet by using TheSky version 6 and slewing to
the Sun (with a solar filter installed, of course). I then slewed to
the comet and removed the filter, and there it was.....in broad
daylight...

Matthew Ota

Ron Lee wrote:
After seeing a similar post yesterday, it cleared today so I decided
to try to find it during daytime. I found thepproximate coordinates
(20 Hr, -18 degrees), and found where that was in relation to the sun
from my location using Rob Matson's Skymap.

It was placed such that I could stand on the north side of my house to
block the sun then look a bit to the left (east). It took a few
minutes to find it partly due to the ice crystals/snow coming off the
roof but at about 1057 AM local MST (1757 UT on 13 Jan 07) I found it
in 7x50 binoculars.

One attempt to see it visually after that failed but I will try again
soon.

Ron Lee