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Observing Reports: Comet Machholz meets the Pleiades
Posted by: katie_p on Jan 09, 2005 - 09:40 PM
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Katie writes: "Comet Machholz (C/2004 Q2) passed the Pleiades on Friday and Saturday. I got out to the Rice Lake Road field Saturday night with the 300D on Nate's mount. The comet was naked eye at about magnitude 3.5, a green fuzzy spot a few degrees from the cluster. 20 x 30 second exposures stacked show the thin blue ion tail."
The comet is now heading north through Perseus and stays up all night. Charts are in Downloads.
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Naked eye
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by ellie_k on Jan 10, 2005 - 07:25 PM
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Found it with no binoculars from my driveway in Esko. Very proud of myself.
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Library display
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by cmattson on Jan 11, 2005 - 03:20 PM
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Katie, could we print your picture for the display case at the library?
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