Comet Ping!...........But no Pong!...............
I wonder where it will be in the night sky. The excerpt doesn’t seem to say.
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Very cool.
A local TV station meteorologist has been talking about this and where best to see it and when.
I still remember Hale-Bopp back in ‘97. Visible with the naked eye as well.
So have we missed out chance or if not when can we see if from where?
BTW, in the early 70’s I would see Comet Kohoutek very early in the morning just above the northern horizon from the SF Bay Area. It was bright and a pretty cool sight.
Lucky me — I have nice black sky all around except the City of Montgomery is directly 14 miles NW of my house so all that part of the sky has is a nice bright whitish blue glow all night.
Our ancient ancestors were afraid of comets. Thought they portended bad things. They called them “Lucifer’s Hammer’’’.
I remember when I was a kid how great it was that I’d be alive when Halley’s Comet came around again in 1986. How lucky.
So when it finally got to be 1986 and I was in my 20’s it came around and was a total dud.
No one could see it. Very unlike the legends of it being so visible it caused fear and panic in the olden days.
And before that, Kahoutek (sp?) was a dud. Supposed to be really visible. But wasn’t.
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tagged for the kids tonight. Hey, if we are gonna home school, what a great, in person lesson!
The most impressive view of the night time sky I had ever experienced was on a pheasant hunting trip to N.W. Kansas and staying in a farmhouse out in the middle of nowhere.........No city lights, no nothing to corrupt the sky.....
When my city was replacing a major roadway's lighting and they used low light pollution fixtures. The bulb is tucked into the fixture rather than being exposed. The road is just as bright as before, but you have a hard time seeing the light source more than two or three light poles ahead rather than seeing a couple of miles of exposed lights.
I finally saw it last night. about 9:30 PM... But I had to use a night vision monocular to see it, despite living out in the middle of nowhere and it being a cloudless night. Even after locating it with the NV, I still couldn’t see it with naked eye, or my (admittedly cheap) binoculars.
If I am out in public naked looking at a comet, won’t I be propositioned by my good looking neighbor lady?
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