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Comet 2014/Q2 Lovejoy taken from Siding Springs, Australia using the Tzec Maun Telescope. I only could use 6 x 1 minute of data (I had a bit more, but somehow there were many high clouds I think introducing some heavy gradients). It’s one of my first comet images like this, but there is still a …

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G. J. Garradd (Siding Spring Observatory, Australia) discovered this comet on four images obtained between 2009 August 13.77 and August 13.81. He was using the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt telescope and a CCD camera. The magnitude was given as 17.5-17.7 and the coma was described as circular and 15″ across. The first confirmation was obtained by …

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G. J. Garradd (Siding Spring Observatory, Australia) discovered this comet on four images obtained between 2009 August 13.77 and August 13.81. He was using the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt telescope and a CCD camera. The magnitude was given as 17.5-17.7 and the coma was described as circular and 15″ across. The first confirmation was obtained by …

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G. J. Garradd (Siding Spring Observatory, Australia) discovered this comet on four images obtained between 2009 August 13.77 and August 13.81. He was using the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt telescope and a CCD camera. The magnitude was given as 17.5-17.7 and the coma was described as circular and 15″ across. The first confirmation was obtained by …

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