Date Time: November 2, 2015 2115-2145hrs
Weather: Clouds along the horizon to the North and East, no wind, and a cool 5C.
Equipment: 20x80 binoculars, Canon Rebel Xsi with 18-55mm and 75-300mm lenses, both mounted on tripod.
Attendance: David M
Objectives: To view and image Comet PanStarrs C/2014 S2, which was near one of the Little Dippers(Ursa Minors') asterism stars. Also, to watch for Auroras where were predicted to appear by spaceweather.com and to keep an eye out for Taurid Meteors, as the Taurid Meteor shower is still underway.
Highlights:
- After an extensive search with binoculars, could not confirm a sighting of the faint magnitude 10 Comet. Comet was suppose to be just West of Anwar during this time, according to this star chart at Heavensabove.com
- Took images of Ursa Minor with both lenses, 15 second exposure images with 300mm lens, and 20 second exposure images with the smaller lens. Didn't find the comet until the images were downloaded onto my computer, then processed with ArcsoftMediaImressions.
- Two Taurids sighted.
- One bright, medium speed, yellowish shooting star on a straight line from Pleiades starting in the NNE going NW. Pleiades was fairly low in the East during observing time.
- Second shooting star was same color and speed as the first, but came straight down from high over-head almost straight through the Little Dipper, as I was imaging it. Didn't capture it in the image though.
- No Auroras or satellites were observed.
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