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Roger,<BR>
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Wish I could draw like you! Outstanding drawings.<BR>
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I met Hale in Oklahoma in 96 or 97. At the time he was unemployed. Even famous observers have their hard times!<BR>
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Attached is a photo of him posing with me and my oldest granddaughter.<BR>
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Fred<BR>
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From: drivester@hotmail.com<BR>To: lvas@lvlug.org<BR>Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:20:10 +0000<BR>Subject: [Lvas] 12 years ago<BR><BR>
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It's hard to believe that it has been 12 years since Hale-Bopp streaked across the overhead and northern sky.<BR> <BR>I have attached a sketch from the night of March 16th 1997. I was using my 10-inch reflector with a 20mm UO Erfle and a 2.8x UO Klee barlow. Magnification was 160X with a FOV of 0.38° or 23 minutes of arc.<BR> <BR>The sketch was made at 4:00 AM local EST. The temperature was 29°.<BR> <BR>I was using high magnification to study the nucleus and coma. <BR> <BR>Using a small RF telescope at low power I measured a tail of over 5° <BR> <BR>I noted the coordinates at: Right ascention: 23h 15m Declination: +44° 30 minutes<BR> <BR>Now that was a comet...<BR> <BR>I also attached NGC 3226-3227 interacting galaxies.<BR> <BR>Best regards, Roger Ivester<BR><BR> <BR><FONT face=Verdana><EM><STRONG> I</STRONG> can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God. Abraham Lincoln</EM></FONT><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>
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