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Comet ISON Spotted!

11/12/2013

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I spotted Comet ISON for the first time this morning! It is still very faint. I was using an 8-inch Newtonian telescope and could barely spot it through the eyepiece. I had to use averted vision and even then I only spotted it because it was slightly fuzzier than the surrounding stars.  I took the image below with an astronomical CCD camera and a 60 second exposure. Now it looks like a comet. You can also see a faint tail extending upwards from the comet.
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