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14-MAR-2013 Larry A. Stevens

Comet PANSTARRS - March 13 (3427)

Cumming, IA - USA

Comet PANSTARRS is making its debut in the northern hemisphere. This is the first night I managed to capture it. For some of these images I still had not found it visually (scanning with 20x80 binoculars), I was just taking a shot in hopes that I would have it. The low horizon clouds to the west were bad and made spotting the comet difficult. I did find it at last with the binoculars and withing seconds was obscured by a cloud, not to return again, so my visual observations was pretty lack-luster as I only had a very brief view. Some of these images have been cropped to show less sky.

Nikon D300
5s f/8.0 at 112.0mm iso1250 full exif

other sizes: small medium large original auto
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