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13-03-2016, 01:17 AM
tilbrook@rbe.ne
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Comet 252P it's monster!!
252P Linear for 12 March 2016. It's a monster a come diameter over 30 arc minutes. That's around the size of the moon as seen from earth and it's still growing!!
Cheers,
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13-03-2016, 09:05 AM
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Wow, great shot Justin!
Can't wait to see this visually, waiting for clear skies here.
Thanks for posting your fantastic images of this beauty!
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13-03-2016, 10:04 AM
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I will be checking out and trying to photograph this one tonight thanks for the heads up
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13-03-2016, 09:49 PM
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Your going great guns on this Justin
Comparing your other two recent interesting Images - Your gunna need a fatta scope
Hardly a chance here of seeing much for next week - again
, may be lucky through a sucker hole
Look forward to more from ya
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13-03-2016, 10:52 PM
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Seen this on fb , nice one
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13-03-2016, 10:55 PM
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sure that's not the image without the flats frame taken off
that is one impressive size!!
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14-03-2016, 12:37 AM
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Thanks chaps!
Here's my image for the 13th, only 5 frames due to cloud. But you can still trace out 27 arc minutes of coma despite the haze in the image.
Cheers,
Justin.
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