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As luck would have it, while learning about astrophotography on a camping trip, I captured Comet Lovejoy in mid-January of 2015 as it passed near the Pleiades and was near its closest approach to the sun. You can see it as a green smudge.
I don't really have the setup for good astrophotography, but it's a fun challenge to see what I can do with my little Nikon A point and shoot. I would have completed the lower portion of the sphere, but really, it would have been black anyway.
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Utah is a state located in the westcentral region of the United States of America. Utah is the 13th largest state by area, ranks 34th by population and 10th by population density of the 50 United States. Utah was the 45th state to be admitted into the Union, on January 4, 1896. Utah is landlocked, being bordered by the states of Idaho to the north, Wyoming to the northeast, Nevada on the west, Colorado on the east and Arizona to the south. Utah is very mountainous and is a popular outing destination of the outdoorsman. The state population is about 2.82M with 95% being Caucasian, 2.4% Asian, 1.7% Native American and 1.3% Black. The state capital and largest city is Salt Lake City.Source: wikipedia