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If you do photograph 12P, try taking a series of short exposures, then discard the ones (if any) criss-crossed by satellites. Combining the "clean" shots can produce an image like this:

"This is a 32 min exposure in 15 sec single shots," says Fritz Helmut Hemmerich, who observed the comet from #Tenerife in the Canary Islands on March 31st. "The #comet looked great as it passed near the yellow-orange star Hamal (mutton in Arabic) in the constellation Aries. I'm very happy to get this shot with such modest equipment."

Satelites aside, Comet 12P is a great target for amateur astrophotographers. It will be in the evening sky all week long, and might even be visible during the April 8th solar eclipse.

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