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C/2006 P1
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C/2006 P1
Comet McNaught
, also known as the
Great Comet of 2007
and
given the designation
C/2006 P1
, is a
non-periodic comet
discovered on August 7, 2006 by British-Australian astronomer
Robert H. McNaught
using the
Uppsala Southern Schmidt Telescope
. It was the brightest comet in over 40 years, and was easily visible to the
naked eye
for observers in the
Southern Hemisphere
in January and February 2007.
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