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Old 07-02-2006, 05:15 PM
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David, it is almost exclusively a morning comet on the border of Telescopium and Indus, low in the south eastern sky, reaching an altitude of 14º before summer twilight hits like a sledgehammer at a bit after 5 am for us here.
ahhh those exclusive bright far southern, morning comets - its what I live for astronomically speaking, and by far is the best thing about living in the far south of oz to me
gave up using 'scopes on bright comets a while ago now - (visually) big bino's from dark sky sites crap on everything else for bright comets most of the time IMO, even cheap ones! (on a sturdy tripod) - wide field in a scope might be cool tho - wasnt as impressive in anything under the 100mm binos - although there was some tail in 20x80's but nowhere as clear or good.
still got a nice afterglow from nearly two days ago mmmmmmmm :-)))))
ps better hurry if ya wanna see it, moons gonna be a spoiler in a few days!

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