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Sky Notes — Welcome Comet Lovejoy!

News • 04/12/2013

1312031938LovejoyComet ISON may have flopped but Comet Lovejoy is some consolation as it never sets from the latitude of Orkney for the coming week.

The comet is pictured right, low down above the north-western horizon, on the evening of December 3, at 19h 36m UT.

A positional chart may be found at: http://www.spanglefish.com/northernskies/index.asp?pageid=272557

Further information at: http://www.spanglefish.com/northernskies/index.asp?pageid=386198

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