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Saw Comet Lovejoy about 3am this morning with 20x80 binoculars, it was a small faint fuzz and seemed to be around the magnitude 9 star HD196401. Confirmed it with a 10" scope which showed it was next the mag 9 star. It was easy to see but not bright in the 10". The comet was not visible in my 7x50 binoculars. The comet was 1.8 degrees to the right of mag 3 alpha Ind. It will be next to alpha Ind on the 22nd & 23rd of March. It moves 8 degrees north (pa 340d) over the next 10 days. On 16/4 it will be next to the PN NGC 6818 & the Gx NGC 6822 and will be about mag 7.5.
Last edited by glenc; 20-03-2007 at 07:30 AM.
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