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ASTRO: McNaught
From Austria!
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ASTRO: McNaught
On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 23:28:33 +0100, Josef Büchsenmeister wrote:
From Austria! Nice. Hear it is now visible in daylight even with the naked eye. Phil |
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Phil wrote: On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 23:28:33 +0100, Josef Büchsenmeister wrote: From Austria! Nice. Hear it is now visible in daylight even with the naked eye. Phil One of our club members used his computer scope to find the comet then sighted along the tube and saw it naked eye. Then slewed to Venus and did the same. He couldn't find either without the scope to site along. He decided it was equal to Venus. He saw no tail. Back in 1965 I saw Ikeya Seki when it was a few hours before its perihelion position. I used a 15 story building to hide the sun and there, a fraction of a solar diameter from the sun, was the comet and a short tail but it was parallel to the sun rather than pointing away from it. Apparently it was moving so fast the tail had to time to stream behind even though the individual particles were moving straight out from the sun. It was moving that fast. In the 10 minutes I followed it it showed considerable movement. I couldn't follow any longer as that put me into a major street and I wanted to live to see another comet. My only optical aid was a black pea-shooter that limited my field of view and gave a rather dark side giving the illusion of helping contrast. Not sure if it really did or not. Amazingly, a cop didn't get curious. I usually attract them. Rick -- Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct. Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh". |
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ASTRO: McNaught
On 2007-01-13 17:28:33 -0500, "Josef Büchsenmeister"
said: From Austria! GREAT shot! thanks! |
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