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Originally Posted by [1ponders]
Can anyone tell me what Comet Garrad's current rate of movement is in arcsec/min or similar?
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Paul,
On Friday it moved from 21:20:50.5+13:44:53.3 to 21:20:52.6+13:44:42.4 in about 15 minutes. That's the cloud induced gap in my image.
So something like sqrt(2.1**2+9.9**2)/15 = .67 arcsec/min. That shouldn't be that unreasonable a guess with the small declination.
Andrew