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[BillFerris@xxxxxxx]

Andrew Cooper wrote:

> Monday night I had the comet in my 10" at a school star party for about
> half an hour.  Even on the outskirts of Tucson the tail was very
> apparent as a fan shaped area out from the coma.  The comet is much
> higher in the sky at sunset than I expected given the date.  If you
> haven't made a point to see it latetly, go!
> 

To borrow a line from a great '60s tune, I second that emotion. Ikeya-Zhang 
is putting on a fine show. I viewed it with my 10-inch Newt (63x) from my 
back deck, Monday night, and was able to make out a bright condensed core 
within the coma. The tail appeared long and narrow, about 50' in length under 
direct scrutiny and beyond the eyepiece field with averted vision. A tapering 
bright inner tail was also seen.

Regards,


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