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Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Naked Eye Comet 3/4 size of Moon

This info comes to us from our good friend Dennis Young.

There is a naked Comet in Sky at present in Hydra the water snake. Believe it or not it is already 3/4 size of the diameter of the moon!!!(coma). Comet C2007 W1- Boattini
Moon is 30arc minutes.. it is 20arc minutes at present.. It brighten unexpectedly to one full mag then predicted. It is now at 6.2mag.

More info... and sky location...at link below... (by the way an --EXCELLENT site for comets)...
look under second one down...

www.aerith.net


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