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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Chit Chat _ Where to find Comet Hartley

Posted by: Stu Oct 1 2010, 07:32 AM

I've put some finder charts up on my Cumbrian Sky blog, if anyone fancies trying to track down/photograph Comet Hartley...

http://cumbriansky.wordpress.com/2010/10/01/where-is-comet-hartley

Posted by: ilbasso Oct 9 2010, 03:35 AM

Comet Hartley was very easy to see in 20x80 binoculars this evening, even in my relatively light-polluted skies 20 miles from Washington DC. As a fuzzy 'star,' it was easy to discern even in the crowded star field around the Double Cluster in Perseus.

Posted by: Lunik9 Oct 10 2010, 04:33 PM

The comet moved from constellation Cassiopeia into Perseus and will have past the constellations Auriga & Gemini to be visible in constellation Canis Minor during the flyby on 4th November 2010...