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Comet Holmes lives on. From Space Weather:
PHOTO-OP: Comet 17P/Holmes is having a close encounter with the California Nebula. "This pale ghost of a comet makes the brilliant red of my home state's nebula seem that much more intense," says Richard Nolthenius of Bonny Doon, California, who photographed the pair on March 1st:
http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod2008/03mar08/Richard-Nolthenius1.jpg?PHPSESSID=o1ne731dum6ap5a0bgfuat7ti1
"On the evenings of March 7th and 8th, Holmes will pass just 'offshore of San Francisco' in the nebula," adds Doug Zubenel of Linn County, Kansas, who labels his own snapshot "California Dreaming." This will be a wonderful photo-op for astronomers with wide-field telescopes. The duo is easy to find; after sunset, just point your optics north at the constellation Perseus: sky map, [url=http://cfa-http://www.harvard.edu/iau/Ephemerides/Comets/0017P.html]ephemeris[/url].
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