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Comet C/2007 E2 (Lovejoy)

I had some minor difficulties locating comet Lovejoy just before 5 am this morning. The scope goto accuracy wasn’t as good as usual. I decided to realign on Vega and Altair as the stars I originally used had already set or just about to. Once done the scope’s precision goto was accurate again.

 Image of comet C/2007 E2 (Lovejoy) on April 15, 2007

Images acquired with Celestron Nexstar 11 telescope, F3.3 focal reducer, and Stellacam2 video camera.

Temperature was 20°F, 0-3 mph wind, transparency good, and turbulence 5/10.

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3 Responses to “Comet C/2007 E2 (Lovejoy)”

  1. Andrew Says:
    April 16th, 2007 at 2:42 am

    Excellent capture!.Do you suspect that this comet will brighten in the near future?.
    More please!.
    Andrew

  2. Vern Says:
    April 16th, 2007 at 6:08 am

    Thanks Andrew!

    The comet is at its brightest now (magnitude 7.1) and will dim to magnitude 8 by the end of the month.

  3. Vern’s Weblog » The sky this week - April 23 to 29 (Colorado Front Range) Says:
    April 26th, 2007 at 2:40 pm

    […] +8 in brightness and has a 8.2 arc min wide coma. Best time to view is around 03:30 am. There is an image of this on my blog at http://www.raben.com/weblog/2007/04/15 96P Machholz is in constellation Pegusus. It is projected to fade from magnitude 10 to 11 this week […]

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