Comet Hunting Next Week
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Re: Comet Hunting Next Week
Thanks, MiM. I got a couple of images last night that were in the right place, but only ~10 pixels to each of them. Just amorphous blobs.
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"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it." ~ H. L. Mencken
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
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Re: Comet Hunting Next Week
Facking Chinese and their yellow dust clouds. 
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"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
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Re: Comet Hunting Next Week
Looking west here in the UK shortly after sunset and not spotted it yet. Am I doing something wrong?
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It's definitely not visible to the naked eye. I was using a long lens and aiming it at the part of the sky where people said it would be. After about 40 exposures, it showed up. You'll need at least some decent binoculars, Rum.Rum wrote:Looking west here in the UK shortly after sunset and not spotted it yet. Am I doing something wrong?
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Thanks! Everyone seemed to be saying it was going to be at least a teensy bit spectacliar. Oh well.FBM wrote:It's definitely not visible to the naked eye. I was using a long lens and aiming it at the part of the sky where people said it would be. After about 40 exposures, it showed up. You'll need at least some decent binoculars, Rum.Rum wrote:Looking west here in the UK shortly after sunset and not spotted it yet. Am I doing something wrong?
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They're saying even more about the one in November. After this showing, I'm prettyRum wrote:Thanks! Everyone seemed to be saying it was going to be at least a teensy bit spectacliar. Oh well.FBM wrote:It's definitely not visible to the naked eye. I was using a long lens and aiming it at the part of the sky where people said it would be. After about 40 exposures, it showed up. You'll need at least some decent binoculars, Rum.Rum wrote:Looking west here in the UK shortly after sunset and not spotted it yet. Am I doing something wrong?
about the next one."A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it." ~ H. L. Mencken
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
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I could have sworn when I was young I saw one nearly as bright as the moon with a massive tail on it. Did that happen or did I just imagine it?
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I just looked it up. I think it must have been the Hale–Bopp Comet. I would have been ten. See this is the sort of thing I was expecting when this thread was started.
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I just looked it up. I think it must have been the Hale–Bopp Comet. I would have been ten. See this is the sort of thing I was expecting when this thread was started.
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Re: Comet Hunting Next Week
PSY: Hyakutake 1996? Def not as bright as the moon, but still quite spectacular.
FBM: maybe an uncropped version with surroundings
FBM: maybe an uncropped version with surroundings
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Re: Comet Hunting Next Week
Got all of the family out hunting for it, and just as they got bored I found it with the binoculars, so everyone got a good look at it after that, and I even got some kind of a pic of it 
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We'll get a better look at it when it hits us.
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Hey, that actually looks pretty good!
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Wait ... you have a dashboard cam now? 
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He's in Moscow.klr wrote:Wait ... you have a dashboard cam now?
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