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Comet Information
this page last modified 04/18/02 04:21 PM

Comet Ikeya-Zhang (officially Comet C/2002 C1)
is getting dimmer, "barely visible with the unaided eye". Binoculars will help.

• SpaceWeather.com  -- info and pics, with links to Finder charts:
  • here is a finder chart -- looking North just before daylight

   

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  A photo taken about March 30th:

photo Copyright © 2002 by Michael Jäger (Austria)

This photograph was obtained by Michael Jäger on 2002 March 30.81. It is a composite of two 4-minute exposures obtained with a 200/300 Schmidt camera and Kodak Ektachrome 100 film. The field of view measures 6° by 3.5°.
It is displayed on this webpage by linking to
GARY  W. KRONK'S COMETOGRAPHY
(http://cometography.com/lcomets/2002c1.html)