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Despite great dark skies tonight and imaging deeper than I have before, I could only trace the tail to about 5 degrees past Nu Puppis, or 34 degrees in total (subs centred on 11:52 UT, 16 Jan). Canon 400D, 18mm, 5x and 4x 3.5 min, ISO 1600, F/3.5.
Very, very faint trace at that, and not even as far as the Milky Way. I shot two fields covering from the LMC to way past Procyon just in case there was a hint of anything on the other side of the Milky Way. That's about it for me on C/2011 W3, it's continuing to fade and I've pushed my humble gear to the limit.
I've been in touch with Lester and he decided to do an extra night, same objective in imaging across the Milky Way. He'll have more conclusive results than me, but we'll just have to wait to see what he got.
Cheers -
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