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Comet (Comet, est. mag 1, est. to be in Lynx)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 50-mm binoculars   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Sat Jul 18 01:40:00 2020 UT   Obs. no.: 2175

Last evening, My brother Anthony & I were able tp Observe Comet Neowise for about 30 minutes before the clouds rolled in. the tail is getting longer with the tail bending right. The coma was easy to see in the haze. Because of the thick haze, we only were able to see it with our binoculars. We also saw the ISS & we watched Jupiter & Saturn rising. It was quite a night of viewing.

Comet (Comet, est. mag 1)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 50-mm binoculars   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Sun Jul 12 08:15:00 2020 UT   Obs. no.: 2169

Early this morning, my brother Anthony & I arose to observe Comet Neowise. As the comet rose in the predawn sky, we could see that its tail was between two & three degrees long. The coma was big & bright & was easily seen in the brightening sky. The comet will shift to the night sky for the rest of the month. We also viewed two conjunctions. The first conjunction was Venus & Aldebaran which were less than one degree apart. Venus was also at its brightest at -4.7 magnitude. The other conjunction was between the moon & Mars & they were about five degrees apart. It was a great morning of viewing.

Comet (Comet, est. mag 4.5, est. to be in Eridanus)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 50-mm binoculars   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: good
Time: Thu Jan 16 01:10:00 2014 UT   Obs. no.: 1943

This evening, my brother Anthony, my friend Joe & I observed Comet Lovejoy. In 10X50 Binoculars, the comet was a big smudge with a nice fantail. A longer faint tail extended out of the fantail. We also viewed the Orion Nebula in the binos & it was brighter than the comet. A great evening of astronomy.

Comet (Comet, est. mag 8.5, est. to be in Delphinus, Est. RaDec 20 24.4/17* 39')
Observer: alex mataringa (e-mail: melhonar@gmail.com)
Instrument: 102-mm refractor   Location: prilipeti, banat, romania
Light pollution: light   Transparency: good   Seeing: good
Time: Thu Aug 18 23:30:00 2011 UT   Obs. no.: 1871

Comet C/2009P1 Garradd,fuzzy spot-like,in Delphinus, no tail observed.

Comet (Comet, est. mag 5, est. to be in Auriga)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 50-mm binoculars   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Thu Oct 21 03:45:00 2010 UT   Obs. no.: 1861

This evening I was finally able to observe Comet Hartley 2 with my 10X50 binoculars. This comet is a small green fuzzball that was quite easy to see with my binos. I also have been following a sun grazing comet headed straight toward the sun on the SOHO sight in real time. This comet will probably crash into the sun while I'm sleeping tonight. Two fine comets to observe, one in the sky above me and another online in real time. That's the life.

Comet (Comet, est. mag 5, est. to be in Leo)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 127-mm other   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Wed Feb 25 03:00:00 2009 UT   Obs. no.: 1816

This evening my brother Anthony and I observed Comet Lulin with my 127mm MAK and my 10X50 binoculars. In binos the comet looked large and was an oval shaped fuzzball. However, in my telescope the comet had a stellar point with two short tails going away the the comet diaganally. Everyone is saying the the comet looks green but to my brother and I, it looked grey. We also observed Saturn. Saturn's rings are almost edge on now. Even though they were nearly edge on, we could still see them easily. Also we saw three moons of Saturn.

Comet (Comet)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: naked eye   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Time: Mon Jun 16 17:37:00 2008 UT   Obs. no.: 1790

There is a comet that is now approaching the sun. Anyone who wants to see this comet should view the Lasco 2 real time images on the SOHO web site. The comet is very bright.

Comet (Comet, est. mag 5.5, est. to be in Aries)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 50-mm binoculars   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Wed Jan 2 01:50:00 2008 UT   Obs. no.: 1749

Happy new year. I just had my first look at Comet 8P/Tuttle with my 10X50 binoculars. This comet is distinctly greenish and I was not able to see any tail on it. I'll try to get another glimpse of it tomorrow night.

Comet (Comet, est. mag 3.7, est. to be in Perseus)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: other   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Sat Dec 1 00:30:00 2007 UT   Obs. no.: 1740

This evening I observed Comet 17P/Holmes with my night vision scope. Spaceweather.com suggested the comet would be easier to see with a night vision scope than with binoculars. The comet did appear much easier to observe in a night vision scope than with binoculars. Although it looked smaller in size I was able to get a definate shape of the comet which looked rather oval to me. Others who can get their hands on a night vision scope should try to observe the comet this way.

Comet (Comet, est. mag 3.5, est. to be in Perseus)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 50-mm binoculars   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Tue Nov 20 01:00:00 2007 UT   Obs. no.: 1736

This evening, my brother Anthony and I from our location and my friend Joe Cseh from his location observed Comet Holmes. The bright star Mirfak is now being occulted by the comet. Mirfak shines through the bottom part of the haze surrounding the comet. The comet still seems to be dimming and we had a very difficult time seeing it naked eye. The comet will be in front of Mirfak for a few more days.

Comet (Comet, est. mag 3.5, est. to be in Perseus)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 50-mm binoculars   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Tue Nov 20 01:00:00 2007 UT   Obs. no.: 1736

This evening, my brother Anthony and I from our location and my friend Joe Cseh from his location observed Comet Holmes. The bright star Mirfak is now being occulted by the comet. Mirfak shines through the bottom part of the haze surrounding the comet. The comet still seems to be dimming and we had a very difficult time seeing it naked eye. The comet will be in front of Mirfak for a few more days.

Comet (Comet, est. mag 3.5, est. to be in Perseus)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 50-mm binoculars   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Tue Nov 20 01:00:00 2007 UT   Obs. no.: 1736

This evening, my brother Anthony and I from our location and my friend Joe Cseh from his location observed Comet Holmes. The bright star Mirfak is now being occulted by the comet. Mirfak shines through the bottom part of the haze surrounding the comet. The comet still seems to be dimming and we had a very difficult time seeing it naked eye. The comet will be in front of Mirfak for a few more days.

Comet (Comet, est. mag 3, est. to be in Perseus)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 50-mm binoculars   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Wed Nov 7 01:15:00 2007 UT   Obs. no.: 1732

This evening I observed Comet 17/P Holmes with my 10X50 binoculars. At the same time my friend Joe Cseh was observing the comet at his house with 18 power binoculars. We both tried to spot any hint of the tail that has been showing up in the latest photos of the comet. We both agreed we may have seen wisps of the tail on the comet's left side but we couldn't be sure. However the comet's size has increased and the blue green color remains. We did notice that as the comet continues to grow in size its magnitude is growing dimmer. With the naked eye the comet no longer looks stellar as its size continues to grow. I also took a quick look at the Pleiades and Hyades open cluster in my binos. As usual they were grand. Tomorrow evening my friends and I will try to spot the comet's tail in our telescopes.

Comet (Comet, est. mag 3, est. to be in Perseus)
Observer: Joe Caggiano (e-mail: jcaggiano@mindspring.com, web: http://home.mindspring.com/~jcaggiano/)
Instrument: 10-inch Dobsonian reflector   Location: Glenside, Pa, USA
Light pollution: light   Transparency: excellent   Seeing: excellent
Time: Tue Oct 30 12:30:00 2007 UT   Obs. no.: 1727

Finally, I captured my first Comet ever on CCD. Comet 17P / Holmes unexpectedly flared up from magnitude 16.6 to better than magnitude 3 over the past week. It is currently bright enough to see with the unaided eye. Viewing at 30x and 60x, there was a beautiful blue halo surrounding the whole comet. It looked like a full moon behind heavy cloud cover. The core was very easily identified as was the coma and tail. Currently, it is approximately 1.5 AU's from the Earth (about 135 million miles away). I have posted pics on my website.

Comet (Comet, est. mag 2, est. to be in Perseus)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 6-inch equatorial reflector   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Tue Oct 30 04:30:00 2007 UT   Obs. no.: 1726

This evening my friends Steve Borer, Mike Dzubaty, Joe Prisco and I observed comet 17P/Holmes with my 10X50 binoculars and Mikes 6" scope. The second great comet of 2007 now looks bigger than before and it definately has a green tinge to it. In the telescope the stellar point within the comet was still there. We also put the scope on the pleiades to observe the nebula around M45's brighter stars. The blue color of the nebula contrasted nicely with the green comet. Finally with the naked eye the comet looked like a fuzzy star.

Comet (Comet, est. mag 2.5, est. to be in Perseus)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 90-mm refractor   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: good
Time: Sun Oct 28 03:00:00 2007 UT   Obs. no.: 1724

This evening my brother Anthony and my friends Joe Cseh and Mary Yurchic observed the second great comet of 2007, Comet 17P/Holmes. In my 10X50 binoculars the comet looked egg shaped with a large area of haze going around the comet. We then pointed Joe's 90 mm refractor towards the comet. We were easily able to see a bright stellar point within the comet. Even with the naked eye this comet is easy to see. Bright moonlight didn't hinder our observations at all. This is the fifth grat comet that I've seen. The others were Comet Arend-Roland in 1957 when I was only eleven years old, Hyachataki in 1996 and yes I know I spelled it wrong, Hale-Bopp in 1997 and McNought earlier this year. I'm looking forward to viewing Comet Holmes when the moon is out of the way.

Comet (Comet, est. mag 5.5, est. to be in Bootes)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 50-mm binoculars   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Sun Oct 21 23:15:00 2007 UT   Obs. no.: 1722

This evening my brother Anthony, and my friends Joe Cseh, Mary Yurchic, Steve Borer and I tried to observe Comet Loneos with 10X50 binoculars. Despite the light pollution we had no trouble finding the comet. The comet's color seemed to be a blend of gray, blue and green although all the colors were a light tinge. We were able to see the tail going up from the comet but the light pollution prevented us from seeing the tail extended way out. We also looked at M31 The Andromeda Galaxy in our binos. All we could see was the core which was quite bright. We also observed the passage of the ISS and we saw one of Jupiter's moons through the binos.

Comet (Comet)
Observer: Christina (e-mail: christinabischoff@hotmail.com)
Instrument: 10-inch Dobsonian reflector   Location: Rio Rico, AZ, USA
Light pollution: light   Transparency: excellent   Seeing: excellent
Time: Sun Aug 12 05:07:00 2007 UT   Obs. no.: 1731

Took out my 10-inch Dobsonian to find Comet Holmes' explosion in Perseus. Being very clear out with only one neighbor's lights on (finally), I saw it very clearly. Without a telescope, it's hazy and resembles a star. With binoculars, it looks clear. With the telescope, it looks amazing. Big, round, blue, and almost fake against the sky. My first comet sighting through a telescope, and definately a memorable one!

Comet (Comet, est. mag 7.5, est. to be in Draco)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 50-mm binoculars   Location: Colebrook, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: none   Transparency: fair   Seeing: good
Time: Sun Jul 15 02:30:00 2007 UT   Obs. no.: 1680

On Saturday Night my friends Mike Dzubaty, Steve Borer and I observed observed Comet Linear 2006 with my 10X50 binoculars while we were camping in the northwest hills of Connecticut. The comet looked like a round fuzzball and we were not able to see a tail on it. Also we couldn't detect the green hue of the comet that others were seeing. We also observed M8, M20, M21, M24, M13, M31, and the double cluster. It was a great weekend of astronomy.

Comet (Comet, est. mag 7-8th, est. to be in Draco, Est. RaDec 15h20m, 57d48')
Observer: Dave Mitsky (e-mail: djm28@psu.edu)
Instrument: 14.5-inch Dobsonian reflector   Location: Tuscarora State Forest, Pennsylvania, USA
Light pollution: light   Transparency: fair   Seeing: good
Time: Thu Jul 12 02:00:00 2007 UT   Obs. no.: 1681

I first observed this comet after the July ASH meeting on Mondaynight, July 9, using the 17" f/15 classical Cassegrain at the ASHNaylor Observatory. Despite very hazy skies, the comet and itscentrally condensed coma were visible.On Thursday night, July 12, my long-time observing partner TonyDonnangelo and I drove to an ASH dark site in the Tuscarora StateForest. There were far more clouds than the forecast of mostly clearskies called for but there were times when the sky was completelyclear and the transparency was quite good. The Milky Way was mottledand full of detail, with the area south of the Teapot spout chockfull of dark nebulae when viewed with binoculars. The VLM was in thelow to mid-sixth magnitude range.One of the numerous celestial objects we observed that night wasComet LINEAR VZ13. We used my 8x42 Celestron Noble binocular, mymounted 15x70 Burgess binocular, my 101mm f/5.4 Tele Vue Genesis sdfrefractor, Tony's 10x50 Celestron Ultima binocular, and Tony's 14.5"f/4.3 Starmaster Sky Tracker Dob.The comet was in the vicinity of 34 Draconis at the time we beganlooking at it and was easily visible. Its magnitude was probably inthe upper-seventh magnitude range. The coma had a noticeable centralcondensation and was rather large. Neither of us could see the tailthat is visible in recent images. Tony saw the comet as being blue-green through his scope, while I perceived a very pale blue hue attimes. C/2006 VZ13 (LINEAR) is moving rather fast across the northernsky. Its motion was readily apparent in an hour's time.For more on this comet and others currently visible, browsehttp://www.skyhound.com/sh/skyhound.htmlOther shallow-sky observing that night included watching a shadowtransit by Io and observing four asteroids (two of which were veryfaint indeed) that neither of us had previously seen.Needless to say, we also observed a great many deep-sky objects ofevery variety.On Saturday night, July 14, I saw the comet once again through afriend's prize-winning 12.5" ATM split-ring equatorial. It had moveda considerable distance from its position on Thursday night

Comet (Comet, est. mag 4)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: other   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Time: Wed Apr 4 19:50:00 2007 UT   Obs. no.: 1636

As seen from SOHO's Lasco 3 imager I can see that Comet Machholz's tail has grown and I believe it is at its longest right now. The comet is now inside the orbit of Mercury and anyone who wants to see it should go to spaceweather.com.

Comet (Comet)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: other   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Time: Tue Apr 3 23:20:00 2007 UT   Obs. no.: 1635

Later this month, Comet Machholz will be appearing in the northern hemishere skies as a binocular object. For the next few days the SOHO satellite's Lasco 3 images are showing the comet in real time. For the last two days I've been watching the comet's tail growing as it goes by the sun. I think the comet's tail will be much longer during the next two days as the comet passes fairly close to the sun.

Comet (Comet, est. mag -8, est. to be in Aquila)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 50-mm binoculars   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: none   Transparency: fair   Seeing: good
Time: Fri Jan 12 22:10:00 2007 UT   Obs. no.: 1612

This evening, my friend, Steve Borer and I observed Comet McNaught with my 10X50 binoculars. The comet's head looked bright and round and we estimated the tail as being about four degrees long. Even with the naked eye, we were able to see the complete comet and tail. Now, here is why I estimated its magnitude as -8. We saw the comet and its tail about 10 to 15 minutes before we were able to see -3.9 magnitude Venus which was higher up in a darker part of the sky. Speaking of Venus, we were able to brace my binoculars and see that Venus is starting to become a waning gibbous phase.

Comet (Comet, est. mag -4, est. to be in Aquila)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 80-mm binoculars   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Wed Jan 10 22:00:00 2007 UT   Obs. no.: 1610

Right after sunset, my friend Mike Dzubaty and I went to a big hill in Milford Ct. to observe Comet McNaught with Mike's mounted 11X80 binoculars. With our naked eyes, the comet looked like the Planet Venus , which was to the comet's upper left. In Mike's binoculars, the comet was big and bright with a fan shaped tail going two or three degrees from the comet. The comet then set about fifteen to twenty minutes later.

Comet (Comet, est. mag -1)
Observer: Joe Caggiano (e-mail: jcaggiano@mindspring.com, web: http://home.mindspring.com/~jcaggiano/)
Instrument: naked eye   Location: Glenside, Pa, USA
Light pollution: severe   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Wed Jan 10 21:45:00 2007 UT   Obs. no.: 1611

Leaving work today I spotted Comet McNaughton low in the South West around sunset. It was amazing! That's the first time ever I have viewed a comet while it was still bright outside. There is speculation that it will outshine Venus! I hope on its return voyage from the sun I have more oppurtunities to view and get pictures of it.

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