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ForeverMoody OP t1_j9ukucd wrote

Reply to comment by TheBlackUnicorn in POV: You’re from NJ, so you get to enjoy this view while someone else pumps your gas. by ForeverMoody

That sounds great!

I was super interested in seeing the comet earlier this month and was able to spot it with my binoculars but it was a little underwhelming at only 10x.

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TheBlackUnicorn t1_j9v94rh wrote

Yeah the comet is pretty much gone, down to Magnitude 8.2. That's like doable for us, but it would just be a smudge in the eyepiece. At its brightest (around Magnitude 5) it was super rad. Magnitude is a little counter-intuitive, higher numbers are dimmer. Magnitude 1 is supposed to be around the brightest stars in the sky, Magnitude 6 is roughly the limit of human naked eye vision.

But definitely come up for one of our public nights starting in April, we're open every Saturday night from 8pm and we'll have a talk plus stargazing from multiple really large telescopes. We've got one of these crazy things I'll be running this summer.

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