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News • Rackwick Bothy reopened after painstaking renovation News • Brodgar toilet costs revealed in this week’s The Orcadian News • Airline cuts to have ‘serious’ impact on patients, says MSP Featured News • End of an era for Strynd Nursery News • Focus on Charity: Rotary Club of Orkney News • Brilliant Beasts provide end of term delight at St Magnus Festival News • Lorraine Kelly returns with sequel to Orkney-based bestseller News • ‘Shock’ OIC move ‘a load of bollards’ says councillor

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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