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Old 05-11-2007, 08:06 AM
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Look forwards to your shots Andrew!

Like Murphy`s law predicts the sky was perfectly clear last night except for a band of cloud maybe 5 degrees wide right across the northern horizon, right across the comet!
Setup the newt just in case a clear patch came by but that cloud band wouldn`t budge!! Could faintly see it now and then to tease me.
About 3.30pm it was getting low and a small break showed at last!
Managed a dozen decent shots before it set below the trees. Quiet amazed how bright and easily visible the comet still is to the naked eye, no problem in finding it. I don`t reckon it has faded much at all in brightness but it no longer looks totally round, being much fainter on one side and larger with a lower surface brightness..couldn`t notice any color with the binos but...
shall post a pic of it a bit later
cheers Gary
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