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20101107_Capsnapper-000254.jpg

Comet Ikeya-Murakami as it will appear on the morning of Dec. 7, 2010 - just about 3 degrees to the right of Venus.

(The comet shown to the lower left is 9P/Tempel and will not be visible, having a magnitude of 12.1.)

Here's a link to a video showing the prgression of the comet over time, generated using TheSky6 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQXSzKcT0b4


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