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07-January-2005, 11:44 PM
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Closets approach of comet Machholz near Pleiades was on January 07. 2005.
I take image of this moment. It is sure event of the month! Image is obtained through refractor Megrez 80 triplet fluorite APO, TeleVue 0,8x field flattener and Canon EOS 300D. Image is mosaic of two images, each assembled of two images of 120 second exposure at 1800 ASA. Andjelko http://www.croastro.com 
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08-January-2005, 10:06 AM
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That is truly an impressive image. I like the way the end of the ion tail seems to merge with the Merope Nebula.
I had a chance to see Comet Machholz and M45 briefly through my Celestron Noble 8x42 binocular on Thursday night before the seemingly ever present clouds returned. Dave Mitsky
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08-January-2005, 12:38 PM
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Yeah, great shot Croastro! I saw the comet through binoculars, but it was very faint. Now I know what I should have seen.
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08-January-2005, 03:56 PM
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That's beautiful. Thanks for posting for all of us clouded in.
The Sky6 shows it is still only about 3 degrees from M45 Pleaides and is just slight north and the the right of it. Transit time is 8:22 local time. It is moving northward (NNW) a little over 2 degrees a day and will be in Perseus next week. Clouds are supposed to break here this afternoon. Good charts for Machholz are available at: http://www.aerith.net/comet/catalog/2004Q2/2004Q2.html and all comets: Reinder Bouma: http://www.shopplaza.nl/astro/ Seiichi Yoshida: http://www.aerith.net/comet/weekly/current.html
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08-January-2005, 04:12 PM
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What a beautiful picture! Great work, Croastro! Yesterday I had cloudy sky, but I saw the comet in my scope a night before, but it wasn´t like this. I just saw something dim.
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08-January-2005, 09:46 PM
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I observed the comet on Friday 7 January-you could frame the comet and the Pleides in the same field of view of a 7 x 50 binoculars-just about no tail(s) visible from my suburban site though
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09-January-2005, 12:57 AM
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great picture
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09-January-2005, 03:03 AM
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Nice Shot, the best Pleiades-Malcholtz Comet combo shot I've seen to date!
Awesome job! And welcome!
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