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Old 07-01-2013, 08:50 PM
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Yup, this will be a great on to watch and is travelling at 2283.35" per min (if my calculations are close to correct, that's about 2/3rd of a degree every 60 seconds.

From a dark sky site it will be possible to watch this with binos! Incredible.

I've recorded a few of these objects but none near as this. As has been said already, parallax is critical so plot out the path locally, find out when it passes an obvious star, then wait in ambush for it to enter the field of view...
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