Comet Machholz meets the Pleiades Observing Reports / Comets & Meteors 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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