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<DIV><FONT color=#008080 size=4 face=Century>Nice image. It reminds me of C/2014
Q2 (Lovejoy) when it was close to the Pleiades in January 2015 – image attached
(Canon DSLR, 105mm lens, f2.8, 1 x 5 min exp, 1600 ISO). Your image has R2 on
the other side of M45 than where Q2 was in my image.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#008080 size=4 face=Century>Regards</FONT></DIV><FONT
face=Century><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"
color=#008080>==============================<BR>John Drummond, Possum
Observatory, IAU Code E94, Gisborne, New Zealand (177d 53' E, 38d 38'
S)<BR>Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand president -
www.rasnz.org.nz<BR>Gisborne Astronomical Society president -
www.astrogas.co.nz<BR>GAS Facebook - www.facebook.com/gisbornecosmos<BR>Email:
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href="mailto:john_drummond@xtra.co.nz">john_drummond@xtra.co.nz</A></FONT></FONT>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=ndj@nickdjames.com
href="mailto:ndj@nickdjames.com">Nick James</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, February 10, 2018 10:04 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=Comets-disc@britastro.org
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [BAA Comets] C/2016 R2 passing the
Pleiades</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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style='FONT-SIZE: small; TEXT-DECORATION: none; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri"; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #000000; FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline'>Denis
Buczynski and I took this image from Tarbatness in Highland <BR>Scotland last
night. Unfortunately, after a really clear day the night <BR>was quite hazy and
we only managed to get a short stack in a clear spot. <BR>This is a 5x30s stack
centred on 2018-02-09, 19:34 using a WO Z61 (61mm, <BR>f/5.9) and a Sony A7s at
ISO3200. The FoV is 5.7x3.8 deg. I'm impressed <BR>how deep you can go in a dark
sky with such a short exposure and small <BR>aperture. The Z61 is also very well
corrected with nice stars all the <BR>way to the edge of the full-frame
sensor.<BR><BR>It looks like we might get another chance this evening. When it
is clear <BR>the sky up here is pretty much as good as I have seen anywhere and
that <BR>includes places like La Palma.<BR><BR>Nick.<BR><BR>
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