Observing - Widefield, Special Events and Comets

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1. What's this comet everyone is talking about?

   By A budding astronomer, December 31, 2016
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   • Davey-T
   • December 31, 2016

2. Mars gets close to Neptune on December 31

   By JeremyS, December 24, 2016
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   • johnfosteruk
   • December 31, 2016

3. NOSS 3-4 (a) & (c) satellites 29.12.2016 6:30am

   By Pete Presland, December 29, 2016
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   • Pete Presland
   • December 30, 2016

4. Geminid meteors

   By Davey-T, December 12, 2016
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   • LukeSkywatcher
   • December 15, 2016

5. Comets in conjunction

   By PepeChambo, December 2, 2016
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   • PepeChambo
   • December 10, 2016

6. Occultation of Aldebaran next Tuesday morning (Dec 13)

   By JeremyS, December 8, 2016
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   • JeremyS
   • December 8, 2016

7. Bright comets in Christmas time

   By YKSE, December 7, 2016
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   • spike95609
   • December 8, 2016

8. Orion & Canis Major 4th December '16

   By Swithin StCleeve, December 4, 2016
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   • Swithin StCleeve
   • December 4, 2016

9. Moon + Venus conjunction tonight Dec 3

   By nytecam, December 3, 2016
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   • bejay1957
   • December 4, 2016

10. Comet C/2015 V2 Johnson passing close to M51

    By pjsmith_6198, November 30, 2016
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    • pjsmith_6198
    • November 30, 2016

11. just spotted 2nd "fireball" in my life ;)

    By uhb1966, November 29, 2016   

    • meteor
    • november orionids
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    • uhb1966
    • November 29, 2016

12. Unexpected meteor shower?

    By Owmuchonomy, November 20, 2016
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    • BenOak
    • November 21, 2016

13. Heads up: close asteroid tonight, 31st Oct 2016

    By lukebl, October 31, 2016
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    • David Smith
    • November 2, 2016

14. Comet/2015 V2 Johnson

    By andrew63, October 3, 2016
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    • lukebl
    • October 26, 2016

15. Aurora at nearly KP8

    By Pete Presland, October 13, 2016
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    • bejay1957
    • October 26, 2016

16. Orion this morning

    By Stub Mandrel, October 9, 2016
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    • Stub Mandrel
    • October 9, 2016

17. Draconids 2016 Oct 7th/8

    By JB80, October 7, 2016
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    • JB80
    • October 7, 2016

18. Milky Way image.

    By johnfosteruk, September 30, 2016
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    • jazza
    • October 6, 2016

19. M45 and surroundings

    By johnfosteruk, September 30, 2016
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    • johnfosteruk
    • October 1, 2016

20. C/2016 A8 (Linear)

    By spike95609, September 12, 2016
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    • spike95609
    • September 14, 2016

21. Perseids Meteors shower 2016, smoker

    By Astrofriend, September 7, 2016   

    • perseids
    • meteor shower
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    • Astrofriend
    • September 11, 2016

22. Meteor near Faversham kent

    By Spudrick187, September 9, 2016
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    • Spudrick187
    • September 9, 2016

23. So missing comet Lovejoy

    By happy-kat, August 24, 2016
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    • andrew63
    • September 1, 2016

24. Satellite Flares?

    By Julessilver, September 1, 2016   

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    • flares
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    • Julessilver
    • September 1, 2016

25. Lots of lovely stars around the Veil

    By Stub Mandrel, August 19, 2016
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    • Pete Presland
    • August 27, 2016