Posted on 09/10/2013 5:38:40 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The discovery of C/2013 R1 Lovejoy was announced on Sept. 9 after two nights of photographic observations by Lovejoy with an 8-inch (20 cm) Schmidt-Cassegrain reflector. When nabbed, the comet was a faint midge of about 14.5 magnitude crossing the border between Orion and Monoceros. Subsequent observations by other amateur astronomers peg it a bit brighter at 14.0 with a small, condensed coma.
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when’s the Zimmerman comet comung?
No Trayvon? come one they have been trying name everything under the sky after this thug.
Reverend Lovejoy said: I remember another gentle visitor from the heavens. Who came to earth... and then died... only to be brought back to life again. And his name was: E.T., the extra-terrestrial. I love that little guy.
What is this “comet lineup” they speak of?
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=mercury+comets&qs=n&form=QBIR&pq=mercury+comets&sc=8-13&sp=-1&sk=
Full name “Lovejoy Skittles”. ;-)
whadIsay?
Thanks BenLurkin, extra to APoD.
Were you not paying attention to the eschatalogical sermon Sunday?
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Absolutely beautiful.
Thank you for posting the link.
If The Sun Doesn’t Blast It, Comet ISON Will Soon Light Up The Sky
-PJ
Oh, I remember the last “Comet of the Century”, back in 1973.
Comet Kohoutek was supposed to put on a spectacular light show as it swept past the sun at the start of the New Year.
I remember as an 8-year-old freezing my A** off as I looked for it in the evening skies—night after night—and never seeing the damn thing.
Later, scientists admitted that for an object (supposedly) visible to the naked eye, it was extremely weak. You could barely see it in the close-ups they put in the paper.
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