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Approaching Comet Hartley
Published on 2 Oct 2010 at 00:00.
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Saturday 2nd October 2010
Comet Hartley by Italian Toni Scarmato.
At that time, the comet will be only 11 million miles from Earth and should be dimly visible to the naked eye from dark sky sites. It already looks great through backyard telescopes. Italian amateur astronomer Toni Scarmato took this picture on Wednesday 29th September 2010 – [...]
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Comet Hartley 2 approaches Earth
Published on 22 Sep 2010 at 00:00.
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Wednesday 22nd September 2010
Click here for an enlarge map from Sky and telescope.com to help you find the Comet Hartley 2′s location.
Comet Hartley 2 will be visible in the constellations of Cassiopeia (The Queen) and Perseus (The Perseus) over the next few weeks, and may grow bright enough to see without the aided eye as [...]
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Comet McNaught (C/2009 R1)
Published on 10 Jun 2010 at 00:00.
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Thursday 10th June 2010
Comet McNaught
It was taken by on June 6th 2010 using an 8-inch telescope. The Comet’s green atmosphere is larger than the Jupiter, while the tail stretches more a million miles, so bring a telescope to catch Comet C/2009 R1 (McNaught) low in the east, because we rarely see a good comet when [...]
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Comet McNaught R1
Published on 8 Jun 2010 at 00:00.
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Tuesday 8th June 2010 @ 23:00 / 11pm
DON’T MISS
Look north towards Perseus at 23:00/ 11pm to spot Comet McNaught R1, this could brighten to become a naked eye object by the end of this month.
