"Nav" wrote in message
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OK, on 1/1/05 at 8.55.11 pm local New York time, comet MACHOLTZ C/2004
Q2 will be will be 2 degrees 2' 4" from HIP17240 (which happens to be a
supergiant star).


I'm unlikely to be in a position where I could see it until mid-January, due
to light pollution.

Perhaps, you could check our weather to find a suitable time when we could
both take a photo after 15th Jan.

Of course, to make the whole thing really interesting, you should use the
two photos to work out the distance to Machholz from the parallex!!!




Regards


Donal
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