[FairOpinion]

[silverleaf]

comet ping

[Calpernia]

Ping and happy new years!

[Calusa]

comet ping

[ProudVet77]

Heard an interesting astronomy tidbit the other night. Apparently on Jan 1st at midnight (local time) Sirius is due south from any location. And it is true every year.

[Kirkwood]

I'll be skiing up in the Alps from the 5th to the 9th, so hopefully I'll have clear skies!

[solitas]

This was an APOD ping a while ago...

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap041213.html Image

http://encke.jpl.nasa.gov/charts.html Finder charts

[kjuncowgirl]

"Machholz was discovered by him using a six-inch telescope he paid $200 for in 1968."

I don't know anything about the price of telescopes that last 36 years, but I figured that $200 at 2% rate for 36 years is a little over $400. That will get you a decent telescope these days, but not near the prices of some top-0-line telescopes.

[Paul_Denton]

Cool I got a telescope tripod for Xmas. Time to pull the scope out and go out far away from the city.

[djf]

Saw it tonight. Very faint, no discernable coma. It did seem to be blue-greenish though.

[spodefly]

BTTT

[SunkenCiv]

Comet put on list of potential Earth impactors
New Scientist | 1 June 2005 | David L Chandler
Posted on 06/02/2005 9:04:31 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1415144/posts