[BAA Comets] Fw: [CometObs] C/2013 X1 outburst ?

Peter Carson petercarson100 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 4 14:30:32 GMT 2016 

I measured it on the 20th and 29th Dec. It was only 0.3 mag different. The
tail shape and extent has significantly changed over the last few weeks
making it now more impressive.
Peter
On 4 Jan 2016 09:18, "Shanklin, Jonathan D." <jdsh at bas.ac.uk> wrote:

> That is about the magnitude I would expect, though at the upper end of the
> range.  It was certainly larger than 2014 S2 when I saw it a few nights
> ago, though S2 was easier.  I'll look forward to receiving the ICQ format
> report!  See the graph on the web page for past obs and future
> extrapolation.
>
> Regards, Jon Shanklin
> BAA Comet Section Visual Co-ordinator
> http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jds
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Comets-disc [mailto:comets-disc-bounces at britastro.org] On Behalf Of
> denis buczynski
> Sent: 04 January 2016 00:56
> To: BAA Comets Discussion List
> Subject: [BAA Comets] Fw: [CometObs] C/2013 X1 outburst ?
>
> Hello all, This message below has been posted on Comet Obs can anyone
> confirm this obsevation.Denis
>
>
>      ----- Forwarded Message -----
>  From: "Stephen McCann mccann.stephen at gmail.com [CometObs]" <
> CometObs-noreply at yahoogroups.com>
>  To: CometObs at yahoogroups.com
>  Sent: Sunday, 3 January 2016, 21:08
>  Subject: [CometObs] C/2013 X1 outburst ?
>
>     Dear all,
>            I've just observed C/2013 X1 in the last 5 minutes (20:57 UT)
> with my 8" SCT and I found it considerably brighter and larger than I
> expected it to be (~8.5 or slightly brighter).  It's much more impressive
> than C/2014 S2.
>
> Has anyone else noticed this?
>
> Kind regards
>
> Stephen McCann (Southampton, UK)
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