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Old 28-12-2011, 02:36 PM
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Dr Graeme White

Here is a picture from Dr Graeme White, the man who found the last SunGrazer.
http://www.dailyadvertiser.com.au/ne...aspx?src=email

"THOSE who stayed up late to watch for Santa on Saturday night were in for a treat as a new 'Christmas star' lit up the skies above the Riverina about 4am.
Wagga's two wise men, directors of the Wagga Observatory Dr Graeme White and Michael Maher, watched on from a location overlooking Borambola, south of Wagga, as Comet Lovejoy illuminated the morning twilight, much like the Christmas star observed at the birth of Christ.
Comet Lovejoy, a sungrazer that was discovered by Terry Lovejoy on Sunday, November 27, has made the trip around the sun and is now visible in the morning twilight, before it fades away in the sunlight.
"Terry Lovejoys's comet is the first sungrazer to be discovered from ground- based observations since the one that I discovered some 40 years ago," Dr White said."
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