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Title: Comet Bradfield - Morning object
Post by: Whitters on Apr 26, 2004, 05:12:00
Space Weather News for April 25, 2004
http://spaceweather.com

If you have wake up before dawn this week for work or school, take a pair of binoculars outside and scan the eastern horizon.  You might see Comet Bradfield.  The comet, which had a close encounter with the sun on April 17th, is now emerging from the sun's glare.  Although it's too dim to see with the unaided eye, at least for most people, by all accounts Comet Bradfield is a beautiful sight through binoculars, its long tail stretching 10 degrees above the rosy glow of the rising sun.

Visit Spaceweather.com for pictures and a sky map.
Title: Comet Bradfield - Morning object
Post by: Whitters on Apr 26, 2004, 05:18:00
For an image see the TA page at http://www.theastronomer.org/index.html