Photo details: Canon 20D, 200mm lens, f/2.8, ISO100, ~1 second exposure.
"The comet is bright in the evening twilight, easily visible through binoculars. I estimate its visual magnitude to be -1," says Dyer. To find the comet, he advises, look to the right of Venus.
"I just got home from observing the comet--wow, what a beauty!" adds Doug Zubenel near Topeka, Kansas. "I could barely make it out naked eye 2o above the horizon. But with my 6-inch binocular telescope at 25-power, it looked just like the photos you've been running the last couple of days." |