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LUWD #0003 – Star Magnitudes And A Comet That Almost Got Away

2020-01-21
By: Donald Machholz
On: January 21, 2020

Venus dances with Neptune, the magnitude scale explained, a new faint comet and let’s look at a bright comet. Podcast 3 Star Map 1 PodcastListen Now

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