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I woke up this morning
and found clear skies for Halley's Comet. It was impressive!
I had a little trouble finding it but after I did it was easy to see with
the naked eye. When I first found it it
was maybe 8-10 degrees from the horizon. To the naked eye it appeared
as a fuzzy star and its tail could be seen if one looked hard enough.
Maybe 1 to 2 degrees of tail could be seen with the naked eye.
With binoculars it was different. It's nucleus
and coma were large maybe
Danny Bush
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My
best photo from that morning appears below. I was fortunate enough
to have it published in a book entitled Looking Back: Amateur Adventures
with Halley's Comet 1985-1986. The book was written by
David Deskins
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A picture of me and
the brightening twilight on that cold March morning.
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A picture of my rig
that I used to track the stars for the photograph above.
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