[AZ-Observing] Fw: McNaught movie.

Just got this from friends in the Indiana Astronomical Society who I used to 
observe with.



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> See the link below for a spectacular movie by Forrest Hamilton, IU alum at 
> Space Telescope Science Institute.
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>> >   Over the weekend, between football games (Way to go Indy!!!), I put
>> > together a nice movie of Comet McNaught as seen by NASA's Earth 
>> > trailing
>> > STEREO solar observatory.  They make their data available to the 
>> > public,
>> > which I used to compose the movie.  Before you click on the link, you
>> > must have at least have a DSL connection to the Internet.  The animated
>> > GIF is 35 MB in size.  It can be found here:
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>> >  http://www.stsci.edu/~hamilton/McNaught_STEREO_11_17.gif
>> >
>> >   The movie covers the time from Jan 11 through the 17th.  The bright
>> > "star" to the lower left is actually the planet Venus and the "star"
>> > that appears to come in from the right toward the end of the loop is
>> > Mercury.  McNaught is currently putting on a fantastic display for
>> > southern hemisphere observers.  It is very reminiscent of the first
>> > comet that I saw (Comet West in the spring of 1976).  You can check out
>> > photos of what McNaught looks like down under here:
>> >
>> >      http://www.spaceweather.com/comets/gallery_mcnaught_page14.htm
>> >
>> >   I attempted to get a glimpse of the fingers of the comet's tail on
>> > Saturday evening.  The conditions here in MD were near perfect, but the
>> > ambient light pollution southwest of Westminster overpowered the comet
>> > and I really could not say for sure that I saw the tail sticking up 
>> > from
>> > the southwestern horizon, although the Venus/Moon pairing was 
>> > spectacular.
>> >
>> >  Forrest
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