From the Sky and Telescope website:

Anyone had the pleasure of spotting this one yet? Comets are fascinating i'm still annoyed that i never got to see Mc Naught earlier this year, there seemed to be cloud cover at every possible moment!!

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2° 44.485' W

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Ditto!

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Join the club...

I literally saw McNaught only one time for FIFTEEN SECONDS before the clouds covered it when it was on the horizon at sunset. Clouds killed every other opportunity.

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Unfortunately, trees I don't own block my low horizon. But it's totally cloudy here, and has been for weeks so it doesn't much matter unfortunately. Besides, it appears it never will clear those trees unless it gets bright enough to see in the day. What with winter coming I just put the boat in the garage. The only way I can see that low to the west is by boat. When you live in a forest low horizons are hard to find!

Rick

Hi All,
Comet McNaught was one of the best comets of all time, something I will never forget for as long as I live. A painting on the evening sky.

Skies for us could never have been better! I took around 240 shots of this comet over two good moonless night. Camera and tripod only.

I was still tracking it many weeks later and taking images till it faded beyond mag 10.

As for this new Comet LONEOS plans are also under way for another image frenzy.

Fingers crossed for clear skies for everyone.

Paul

Those of us who are complaining are in the northern hemisphere and had about a week before it disappeared below the southern horizon! For many of us, that week was cloudy or, as in my case, (to make it doubly infuriating) it was just the southwestern horizon that was blocked.

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I sleep evenings, but I made a schedule change to see McNaught. As it turned out, I was running late to get to the park with the wide open western view, so I went to an alternate site. I did get a peek at it, but it turns out that 200 yards from the gate of an Air Force Base isn't the best spot to set up a camera and tripod. I got one very poor picture by resting the camera lens on the binoculars sitting on the hood of the car.

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I was able to observe Comet McNaught briefly during the early evening on two occasions and managed to take a few rather poor prime focus shots of it through a small refractor.

C/2006 P1 (McNaught) On A Very Windy Evening, 2007/1/8

An observing buddy and I tried our hardest to catch the comet during the daytime on the only clear day it was still visible from the northern hemisphere. It was in the vicinity of Venus at the time, which we located with ease using the ASH 17" classical Cassegrain and 5" finder, but the comet eluded us completely. I have always wanted to see a comet during the daytime!

Comet McNaught

Dave Mitsky

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For those who are going to give Comet LONEOS a try, here is a link to a profile, finding charts, orbital elements, magnitudes and a sub-link to a few pictures.

http://www.aerith.net/comet/catalog/2007F1/2007F1.html

IIRC it was clear here most of the day and then a hour or two before sunset it clouded over :@

i'm going to try to spot LONEOS but i'm not convinced that i will see it, quite a way to go for a low horizon from here!!

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51° 25.787' N
2° 44.485' W

My Collection:
Dollond Naturlux 10x50 5deg bins
Sky Watcher Explorer 6" f/8 Newtonian with Moonlite Stepper driven Crayford on HEQ5 Pro SynScan mount.
Telrad Finder.
Selection of SLR lenses: 400mm f/6.3, 300mm f/5.5, 200mm f/3.5 & 135mm f/2.8
Fuji S9600 Camera (non SLR)
Philips SPC900NC
Atik 16IC-S & Awaiting a Atik motorised filter wheel with Astronomik LRGB filters...

http://www.ryan-astro.co.uk

Unfortunately it would be impossible for me to see this, as it would really only be visible from my location tonight, and the weather is horrible. Besides, there's an almost full moon, and the trees make it impossible to see the western horizon.

This is my clear sky clock: