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Topic: Comets & Meteors
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Observing Reports: Comet Machholz meets the Pleiades
Posted by: katie_p on Sunday, January 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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Observing Reports: Geminids: 70 an hour before the clouds
Posted by: gwilson on Tuesday, December 14, 2004 - 08:20 AM
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Gary writes: "Four of us were at the Rice Lake Road field from 10 PM to 1:30 AM on the peak night. With no Moon and minus 4 degrees we counted 70 an hour at the best, including two that lit up the snow. Clouds came in off the lake at 1:30 and that was that."
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Observing Reports: Comet NEAT finally clears the trees
Posted by: skyguy_mn on Monday, May 17, 2004 - 10:58 PM
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Jeff writes: "After a week of clouds I finally got Comet NEAT (C/2001 Q4) from the hill behind my house on Saturday. It was an easy naked-eye fuzzy star about 15 degrees up in the west, sitting just above the Beehive cluster. In 10x50s the tail was about two degrees long."
NEAT is fading and moving north, so the next week is the best chance. Comet LINEAR (C/2002 T7) is a morning object and very low from here.
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