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Old 06-09-2010, 03:40 PM
Rob_K
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Yeah, 103P should be a good target, the further north you are the better.

The CCD images do show a faint tail, but recent LRGB images show almost a completely different comet, with a large and diffuse green coma that the monochrome (essentially luminance?) CCD images aren't picking up. That pretty much ties in with some recent visual obs I've seen, of a large, faint diffuse object, up to 15 arcminutes in diameter.

Getting a bit low for me now against my hilly horizon (not really an issue with the weather the way it's been, LOL), but still have hopes even if I have to drive to a better northern horizon.

Saw 10P Tempel last night at low powers (23x) through a small sucker-hole - easy to see, nice object.

Nice obs Mozzie, good luck with it!

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