Waveform

Just looked at the weather station here. Temp is -18.9°c. Thankfully the wind is light not playing windchill games. Looks like these temps are here at least until Monday, then a low moving in from the south west bring warmer temps at a cost of probably 20+cm snow. I guess I would rather have the snow than the -30°C windchill temps.

LOL, I'm in the category also. I don't mind staying up late into the wee hour's to see something, but I'm not a big fan of rolling my rear out of bed early in the morning. Anyway, here is a quick chart I put together for the sky looking from London Feb 28 at 21.00hrs local time. Actually there should be very little difference anywhere in the British Ilse's Comet Lulin is directly SW, altitude is 45. I have it circled in white. As Osbourne One-Nil pointed out it's proximity to Regulus and Saturn.

Comet C/2007 N3 Lulin is approaching us. It is in the constellation Libra close to Scorpius right now at Magnitude 8. It will make it’s closest approach Feb 28, 2009, at 0.41 AU and should brighten to a visual magnitude of 5 visible to the unaided eye. Ever since the ‘eruption’ of comet Holmes I like to pay attention to anything passing near and hope for another terrific show. If we get good conditions over the next weeks I’ll try for a photo and post it. Regardless, when it gets near there should be a good view from binoculars up.

Looking like the appearance of sunspot 1010. (LOL, binary spot number 10) today. Cloudy skies here (as usual), can not try for an observation or photo. Nothing more than a personal comment here. I think because of the appearance of magnetic reversals spots sometime ago, when this cycle (24) ramps up in a few years the cycle will be quite active. In fact I am saving my 'pocket change' now to purchase a H-alpha filter for the scope.

Very nice shots.....

First post here. :winky: Very nice captures. I especially like the second one, the stone wall.