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Old 18-09-2014, 08:22 PM
Tropo-Bob (Bob)
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The comet proved to be faint and elusive. Furthermore, my coordinates were slighty wrong. I did find a great website which I recomend. It can be used to find the comets current position according to hour. http://theskylive.com/planetarium?ob...9-18&h=10&m=13

I used my 102mm Vixen to find the Comet and it appeared only as a very faint patch. I then used my 8inch Celestron to confirm the sighting. Even in the Celestron, the Comet only appeared a faint smuge.

Mars & Delta Scorpio were close, and the colour contrast between the blue white star and the Red Planet was quite striking.

Mercury is closing on Spica and will be closest on Saturday night. Its remarable to have 2 events like this so close together.
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