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Old 13-01-2012, 03:17 PM
tornado33
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Good pic there. It sure shows how faint it now is. Its odd behaiviour for a comet as normally the tail dissapears leaving just the coma when they move away from the Sun, Lovejoy still has a fairly long tail, just that it's surface brightness is very low.
Scott
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