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Old 29-11-2010, 05:35 PM
Rob_K
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Originally Posted by pgc hunter View Post
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
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 -
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