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  1. Newsgroups: sci.astro
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!nstn.ns.ca!cs.dal.ca!andromed
  3. From: andromed@cs.dal.ca (Mike Boschat)
  4. Subject: Swift-Tuttle Observation Nov.20/21, 1992
  5. Message-ID: <By1D1C.3wA@cs.dal.ca>
  6. Sender: usenet@cs.dal.ca (USENET News)
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: storm.atm.dal.ca
  8. Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
  9. Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:27:11 GMT
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  14.               Swift-Tuttle Observation; Nov. 20/21--2200-2218 UT
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  17.                Magnitude Estimate Using 7x35 Binoculars
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  20.  Upon locating the star field with the 7x35s I out-of-focused the field
  21. and the comet was brighter than BD +169191 at 5.2 Mv, it was similar
  22. to BD +22d 03273 at 5.0 Mv, so based on that I give Swift-Tuttle a
  23. magnitude of 5.0.
  24.  Sky was very clear and the limit mag. was 5.0...and COLD !!!
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  26.                         Clear skies
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  28.                         Mike Boschat
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  30.                                           andromed@sleet.atm.dal.ca
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  32. |                                   |  "Our problems are man-made,          |
  33. |        JOHN F. KENNEDY            | therefore they can be solved by man " |
  34. |                                   |                                       |
  35. |   ASTRONOMICAL  OBSERVATORY       |                 J.F.K.                |
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