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Old 10-04-2008, 10:35 PM
Karlsson
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Originally Posted by Outbackmanyep View Post
For those of you with dark skies, i found W1 with 7x50 binoculars last night. Quite an easy object if you know where to look!

I made it out at mag 8.8, and dia of 8' approx.

Cheers!
Here in suburban Sydney I could see in in my 8" Newt last night, but only just...ZLM about 5.3 as I could just see HR4590 naked eye.

Tonight at 22:00: RH=80%, dew everywhere, eta Crt (5.2) is invisible, and the comet is a no show. It will be a while here before my binos catch it...
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