Comet Machholz

I saw the comet tonight! although dim here in L.A. I did see it.

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"Mark F." wrote in message news:H9oDd.37048$h.2043@trnddc04...
I saw the comet tonight! although dim here in L.A. I did see it.

congrats! totally clouded here for almost 3 weeks now.... :-(
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Hey Mark,

Me too, from near the beach about 25 miles southwest of LA. Had to use 8 x 42
binocs though. Would NEVER have found it without the help of the folks here at
saa and the info in Sky & Telescope mag. Now of course, it's raining
again.......but it never rains in southern California!

Rick

"Mark F." wrote in message
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I saw the comet tonight! although dim here in L.A. I did see it.

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Hike High Mountains
Fish for Wild Trout
Dear Mark
It is very easily seen in the north now from my home (in Australia) even
with street lights around. It looked like a fuzz ball just west of the
pleades last night.


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Terry B
Moree
Australia

"Terry B" writes:

"Mark F." wrote in message
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I saw the comet tonight! although dim here in L.A. I did see it.

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Hike High Mountains
Fish for Wild Trout
Dear Mark
It is very easily seen in the north now from my home (in Australia) even
with street lights around. It looked like a fuzz ball just west of the
pleades last night.

I also saw it finally with naked eye last night, when the cloud cover
did a nice surprise and lifted for a few hours. Not easy to see when
looking directly, but with averted vision, not really a problem. It
was a nice sight in the binoculars, with Pleiades in the same FOV. Now
it's finally high enough that I can try my luck with a telescope from
the balcony (I'll have to pack the scope in a car and find a non-light
polluted place some night, though - when weather gets nicer and the
20D I'm expecting arrives).

On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 04:24:07 GMT, "Mark F." wrote:

I saw the comet tonight! although dim here in L.A. I did see it.

It's been a just-barely-naked-eye object for me for about a week,
just after having posting on slashdot that it wasn't such for me.
I saw it last night through my 11x80 binoculars, and I could just
barely tell a long thin line coming from it, much like in many of the
photos I've seen that others here have taken. Did I really see that?
Has anyone else seen that with similar equipment?

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