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Comet Lulin observing report

After going to the monthly ASNH meeting at the newly completed Leitner Family Observatory & Planetarium, at Yale University, I managed to take advange of the good weather and capture Comet C/2007 N3 (Lulin) again. I took all of the usual close up pictures with a 400mm to 600mm lens.  Now the comet is just [...]

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The long awaited Comet Lulin is making it’s closest approach to us on February 24th.  On that date, Lulin will be in the constellation Leo, just a few degrees away from Saturn. Right now the comet is at an approximate visable magnitude of 5.7. Last week I managed to get a glimpse of it through binoculars [...]

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