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Amazing Image Captured of Comet ISON

Stargazer John Chumack used a homemade telescope and a QHY8 cooled single shot color CCD camera to capture this image. 
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“I’m excited to see what comet ISON will do in the next 60 days,” wrote stargazer John Chumack, who sent SPACE.com this photo of comet ISON’s nucleus, taken from Yellow Springs, Ohio.


Chumack used a homemade telescope and a QHY8 cooled single shot color CCD camera to capture this image. 

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