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Have to post this ---- this is one very happy Scotty! Well done mate!
From: Scott Alder
Sent: Thursday, 11 January 2007 1:07 PM
To: David Hough; Paul Mayo
Subject: I saw the comet!!!
Yes, as soon as I got home, noting the clear blue sky I set up even before having lunch. After dialling up the comets position with the Argo Navis, a short visual look around the field and bingo, there it was, a very tight central condensation, pure white in colour with a small amount of extended "nebulosity" around it. I was stunned to see a comet in broad daylight. Its still far enough away from the Sun that no sunlight falls on the primary.
I tried low and higher magnifications. As seeing was limiting resolution it paid to keep looking, every now and then a good patch of seeing would show a stellarlike core, quite bright. Imagine how this would look under a dark night sky.
Needless to say I imaged it. I could see it clearly in the camera viewfinder!
Images to follow.
Scott
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