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#1 2005-07-11 14:56:08

Palomar
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Re: Luna Occults Tempel 1 - Australian viewers

[Note:  http://www.newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3432]DI Mission/aftermath is being followed in *this* thread.  Thank you.]

*Wow, what a lucky break for the good folks "Down Under."

Friday, July 15 - For our friends in Australia comes one incredible event... Tonight the Moon will occult Comet 9/P Tempel 1. For more information on this event, please visit the IOTA webpages for times and locations. We wish you the very best of skies!

Will need a small 'scope at least to see the comet (magnitude aprox 9.5 now); perhaps even strong binoculars will do. 

http://www.lunar-occultations.com/iota/ … l.htm]IOTA

Moon will be growing (phase 0.59), so disappearance
occurs behind the dark limb.

Info courtesy universetoday.com

--Cindy


We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

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