Really, I have sooo many oaks, I cannot see a blessed thing!
Hope most of you Freepers can see it.
I am cool, I got to see Hale-Bop many moons ago in the Kiamichi Mountains. Rocked my stuff.
I’m in your boat - a mountain bigger than mine behind me blocking the low horizon where we’d see it. But the photos that are circulating are something else, eh? I wonder what folks thought 6,766 years ago when they saw it?
Right now, as in 9:31pm pacific time, here’s a livestream. It was spectacular last night - tail visible and everything. s/b good tonite too, in about 20 min or so:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFrKVqeLYkI
I saw Hale-Bop too at Ft Irwin and filmed it with night vision.
A meteor bisected the tail, it was awesome!
Once again too cloudy here (and way too sunny by the time I got out of bed for the pre-dawn appearances).
Hale-Bopp stuck around for a long time - it ws visible for 18 month. That was a great time for comets, first Hyakutake in 1996 and then Hale-Bopp in 1997. Hyakutake was so bright because it passed about 9 million miles from Earth. Hale-Bopp on the other hand, was a huge comet so it was bright even though it was 122 million miles from Earth at closes approach.
>> Really, I have sooo many oaks, I cannot see a blessed thing!
When the leaves aren’t blocking your vision, they make you clean up their mess every fall.
Oaks are magnificent trees. Keeping them healthy in their elder years is a responsibility though...