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Old 12-02-2007, 06:07 AM
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getting faint now for sure, maybe dimmer than mag 4 easily, but we could still see the pointed broad tail faintly stretch up to alongside the SMC at times NE, and with averted vision even better again, from a dark location. We did have bad conditions come in (low fog?), but our early looks were very good, took to long to get started, early shots all film but took a few long guided exposres with the 350D 18-55 kit lens at 18 - this one 313 secs - can see very faint smoky streak of the tail coming up from the horizon towards the smc,- taken after midnight when comet was low in the horizon muck/fog?, and we couldnt see it with the naked eye by this stage, but it turned up in image slightly
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