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 Jan 8 2007, 10:35 PM
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QUOTE (djellison @ Jan 8 2007, 05:36 PM)  There is a mutual exclusivity between transient astronomical phenomenon and the British climate - I'm sure of it. Doug Don't complain please, I'm the one that has too. I'm in Hawaii (Kawaii) right now and it's raining... and will not stop for another 3 days   
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Jan 8 2007, 10:40 PM
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QUOTE (climber @ Jan 8 2007, 10:35 PM) Don't complain please, I'm the one that has too. I'm in Hawaii (Kawaii) right now and it's raining... and will not stop for another 3 days Pah! Luxury! Three days? Why, when I were a lad, it rained solidly all year. In fact, happen as you mention it, it rained solidly all year *every* year. Why, we were so wet that... (and on, and on) You can't hope to beat British complaints about the weather! Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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Jan 8 2007, 10:40 PM
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Not a cloud in the sky here
I'll have to take a look tonight (no way I'm getting up that early tomorrow morning...)
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Jan 8 2007, 10:56 PM
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 The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Much more rain here in Kendal and I'm going to start building a big boat and rounding up pairs of animals...
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Jan 8 2007, 11:00 PM
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QUOTE (Stu @ Jan 8 2007, 10:56 PM) Much more rain here in Kendal and I'm going to start building a big boat and rounding up pairs of animals... Stu: A boat? And animals? In pairs? You had it easy... Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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Jan 9 2007, 01:51 AM
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QUOTE (Stu @ Jan 8 2007, 11:56 PM) Much more rain here in Kendal and I'm going to start building a big boat and rounding up pairs of animals... Don't forget Spirit & Oppy. Bob, please NO comment on this, eh ! -------------------- |
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Jan 9 2007, 03:09 AM
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Man, here in Southern California I've got clear skies and an unobstructed view of the western horizon, and I STILL can't see it due to the <clink> smog/haze and light pollution!!!
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Jan 9 2007, 08:43 AM
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In the spaceweather.com gallery, the furthest south it's been spotted seems to be San Francisco. the lower the lattitude, the flatter the line from sun to comet is to the horizon. It really needs to stick up at a high angle as it does in Scandanavia.
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Jan 9 2007, 10:31 AM
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I saw the comet this morning and it is *very* bright, the sky wasn't very dark but despite this the tail was fairly long and easily visible and the nucleus very bright. It's probably brighter than Hale-Bopp ever was although this is difficult to estimate since the viewing geometry is very different, McNaught was low in the sky when I saw it, buildings and streetlights nearby and my memory isn't perfect.
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Jan 9 2007, 03:01 PM
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They say it topped Hale-Bopp's brightness. Looks like folks in the southern hemisphere might be up for a spectacular show after perihelion. Meanwhile, still %^@!& cloudy here with a hole in the clouds here and there, but never in the right place.
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Jan 9 2007, 05:49 PM
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I've seen it finally, I had to rescedule my sleep but now I bagged this one!
Its a nice one. And I think edstrick is right, for a second time we up in the north got one advantage. Halley was completely hopeless for us this time around (Hally of the year 837 are said to have been spectacular thought and comparable to Hyakutake which covered 120 degrees in the sky and a naked eye head 2 degrees wide to mention some fact), then after that treat Hale Bopp didnt get me exited at all. Yet I concur with ugordan and Bjorn Jonsson MacNaught is a very bight one. To bad the best part will be on the souther hemisphere like with comet West that I never got a good look at. So far I can compare McNaught with Kohoutek - if memory serves me right. |
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Jan 9 2007, 05:59 PM
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Last night I had a dream I saw the comet
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Jan 9 2007, 06:21 PM
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Jan 9 2007, 10:01 PM
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Correct me if I'm wrong but as Jan 12 approaches, conditions for viewing will become rapidly unfavorable? That's as little as two days. Those in the north who got to see it, saw it. Those who haven't, won't...
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Jan 9 2007, 10:13 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
You're right, and I reckon - from using STARRY NIGHT - I have two more days to see it, then that's it, I'll have to watch it cross the SOHO field of view and then grit my teeth as I read reports from the s hemisphere. Forecast is promising for here for tomorrow sunset and Thursday dawn, so fingers crossed...
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