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From: mcgeer@JI (Rick McGeer)
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Subject: Re:  Photographing Halley's
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Date: Wed, 15-Jan-86 16:54:33 EST
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	Will you really need a telescope to see the comet in April?  I'd heard
that the tail will be 20 degrees or thereabouts, and magnitude 3 -- which would
make Halley's look more or less like a wide milky way of about the size of
Orion.  Is that not accurate?

						-- Rick.