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To: MtnClimber

That pic is impressive.

I note the “near naked-eye visibility”, after I went out last night/mornint, naked eyed and did not see it.

So I wonder, how visible must those comets in the ancient days, when everyone panicked due to seeing them, been?


6 posted on 09/30/2024 1:12:06 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT. And I am generally full of /S)
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To: Scrambler Bob

The name is, I believe, the same the Chinese used to name San Francisco. “Gold mountain” or something similar.


7 posted on 09/30/2024 1:41:40 PM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: Scrambler Bob

In ancient times there was, of course, very little light pollution and the visible magnitudes were much dimmer. You have to be more than 150 miles away from civilization to find anything like that now. Plus more haze from human activity although there were sources of haze then, too.


8 posted on 09/30/2024 1:46:13 PM PDT by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carceremâ„¢)
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