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From: bilbo.niket@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU ("Niket K. Patwardhan")
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Subject: Re:  Photographing Halley's
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Date: Thu, 16-Jan-86 12:49:37 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?

That's wonderful..... I was very disappointed with the current view..... It
really isn't a spectacle if you have to use binoculars to see it. Now I'll
be motivated to get up early to see it, or even camp out, given LA skies.