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novbabies
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Reged: 06/05/05
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Loc: Northern Georgia!
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In that I am in the process of relocating, my optical aid consists of 7x35 binoculars. Went to the site that hopefully will be our new home tonight in Yellow skies south and west of Athens GA.
By 7:40 PM EDT, I was seeing not only M6 and M7 (those from earlier even), but also M8 ( !!), M20, M22, and M21. I think I got M57 but am not sure. Also M27, M13, and Brocchi's Cluster.
The Milky Way seemed fairly prominent even though the sky was somewhat hazy - assuming it hadn't really changed from its sunset character, which was heavily hazy-ish...so these skies may be better than my old CT ones  !
Repeatedly went back to Comet Holmes, which seemed less yellow and either larger or more centrally condensed, hard to tell. The color issue may have been due to its low altitude (15-20°). It is certainly an easy naked-eye target, and a bloated ball in the 7x35s.
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Good Seeing!
Mark
Orion 12" XTi f/4.9
VERY old Edmund 6" f/8 reflector
Assorted binoculars
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Markus
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Comet Holmes is quite yellow-gold from what I saw this morning in my 25x100's. The central core was bright and somewhat smaller from two days ago and the fan-shaped part from the nucleus was still there too.
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25X100 Skymasters
15X70 Skymasters
Home built Parallelogram Mount
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stargazertony
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Reged: 09/25/07
Posts: 195
Loc: CA.
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I was checking out the comet last night and Im seeing it more in the bluish white color tones. Its an amazing sight and I made out the nucleus very well also.
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Anthony Rogers 
12.5" Discovery PDHQ Dob."Aldebaran"
4" Mak w/Stellarvue Dielectric Diag.
20x80 Barska Binoculars Mounted
7X35 Simmons Wide Field Binoculars
My CN Photo Gallery
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Falcon Birder
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Reged: 04/16/07
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I told my visiting parents that we can see a comet tonight. They didn't believe me at first. It took me only less than 1 min to find the comet with my 10x42 handheld. Then, it took me another 5min to align it with my 25x100 since I didn't bother to put the red dot finder on it. It was embarrassing moment while trying to impress parents. In any case, I finally locked it in the FOV. Mom and Dad were both impressed. I think it is the first time they ever saw comet before.
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Zen-Ray SUMMIT 10x42 WP
Swaroski 8.5x42 EL
Leica 8x32 Ultravid
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