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Comet over Lake Varner 2013-03-09 and 10

10 March, 2013 (17:41) | Deep Sky Objects, Uncategorized | By: tramakers

We reached out to the community in offering Comet watch events at Lake Varner in covington on Saturday and Sunday. The events were announced in 5 local news papers. Saturday evening was clouded out but on Sunday there were some clear skies in the west. However, despite a number of binos scanning the sky and the horizon we were not able to locate the Comet through the Atlanta air polution. Despite this I kept shooting images, a total of 48. And guess what? My camera caught the comet on about 9 images, so the session was not a complete waste. Click here for a link to the animation of the comet setting and click the image for a larger version.