First thing, please click on this photograph to enlarge it. It is a photograph of part of the night sky and you will see numerous stars when you enlarge the photo. Now, look and see if you can see a fuzzy, blurry whitish odd shaped grayish comet-looking thing? You don't see that? Neither do I and that is a disappointment. A small group of us went looking for the comet tonight out at the Vanderbilt Museum. It was COLD - 28 degrees, and it was windy too - from 10 to 15 MPH winds. The good news is that I was able to find the comet in my 8" diameter telescope, and I was able to show it to half a dozen people who wanted to see it. So I did see it. But I didn't manage to photograph it. It was in the sky that didn't have any really bright stars as a reference. So I did a series of photos where I took one photo then moved the camera to the left and took another and so on, a couple of times, but I was disappointed, when I got home, to discover the comet was not in any of the photos. Oh well, at least I saw it with my own eyes through my telescope. Such is the life of a comet hunter.
Thank you for your persistence. Nice starry night.
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Kudos for trying! At least you saw it...betsey
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