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836-Jacqui's Comet
Published 1 year, 1 month ago
Description
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Jacqueline Fazekas was asteroid hunting with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when she spotted a glowing patch of light moving through the constellation of Cancer.By discovering her first comet Jacqui became the 483 person to discover a comet since 1758 when Charles Messier created a catalogue of diffuse objects to help fellow comet enthusiasts not be fooled by gas clouds and galaxies in their search for a new comet.