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Yet another remote shot of ISON is attached, taken a few hours ago. 
 
The sky was bright as the Full Moon was above the horizon, but the real 
problem was glare from Mars, not far outside the field.....spreading from the south across the CCD and almost trashing the image. I also tried a 
shot with the smaller 0.43m scope but the internal reflections from Mars 
on that shot wrote the entire image off! Light from Regulus may not 
have helped either....... Unfortunately this problem (and the Moon) will 
probably be around for a while........... 
20131017 Martin Mobberley