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Originally Posted by pgc hunter
Great obs there Rob. Love you image, what a perfect alighnment and it must've been fascinating to see those two clusters, NGC 2438 and the coment all in the same FOV. A fairly rare event I'd imagine. Wish I could get the 120st out for this but was full Melbournecast as usual
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Thanks pgc! Yep it was great, but still don't know why the gods saw fit to give me a little window. Must have been a better boy than I thought I was.
And of course I didn't buy any gear.
Seiichi Yoshida runs a comet conjunction calendar if you're ever interested (or get clear sky again). Some are pretty wide 'conjunctions', others are dim comets/objects suited only to CCD, but if there's a bright comet in the sky his list is worth a check for the odd visual target.
http://www.aerith.net/comet/rendezvous/current.html
I've looked at some images posted around the web of this conjunction - most if not all are much better quality than mine, but mine's the only one I've seen with the objects in line. States & Europe got the comet each side of centre on successive nights.
Cheers -