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Subject I saw a comet tonight!

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Original Message I finally bought the cable to connect my telescope to my laptop so I can control it with Stellarium.

The first object I selected in Stellarium was Saturn just to test it out. The scope went right to it and Saturn was visible in the center of the eyepiece. Yay it works!

Next, I selected C/2010 X1 (Elenin), but didn't see anything. I'm not surprised though, it was very low by this time (8:45pm cst) at ~ 3 degrees above the horizon. And with all the light pollution near the horizon it would be very difficult to see.

My third object was another comet, C/2009 P1 (Garradd). It was much higher in the sky at ~ 65 degrees. This time I saw a faint fuzzy. WooHoo!, my first comet viewed with my telescope. I guess I'm going to have to wait until October to be able to see Elenin.

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