I am a couple of hours away from observing 29P.  It had been cloudy for the last two nights, but clear all day today..  And clouds are due to arrive at or shortly after dark (and the satellite images confirm this).  So, it will be a close race.  After tonight, there will be at least 1-2 days of cloudy weather.   And to think last week I had 7 days of clear weather!  Bad timing for a major outburst, at least for me.

Charles Morris
 Dreamweaver Observatory
Fillmore, CA

On Thursday, November 19, 2020, 02:34:43 PM PST, Richard Miles - rmiles. btee at btinternet. com <baa-comet@simplelists.com> wrote:


Nick, Denis et al.,

I am pleased to report that despite very strong winds gusting >60 km/h in
Haute Provence, Jean-François Soulier has coverage of the start of the event
using his 0.20-m dedicated robotic telescope.

According to preliminary data from JF, between 2020 11 19.764 and 19.796,
comet 29P brightened from 16.0R to 14.0R, that's some 2.0 magnitudes in <45
minutes.
The exact time of the start of outburst is probably close to 19.768
+/-0.002.

High winds interupted JF's observing run for a short time and his images are
taken in bad seeing but are nonetheless conclusive.

Richard

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick James" <ndj@nickdjames.com>
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Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2020 6:58 PM
Subject: Re: [BAA Comets] Observations of 29P


> Evening all,
>
> It looks as if 29P is in outburst. I get 14.3 from a set of images taken
> 10 minutes ago. It was around 16.2 this time last night.
>
> I've checked the DSS and it is not sitting on a star...
>
> Nick.
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