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pbholmes
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pbholmes
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It is bright.
Here it is as seen from Ridgeway, looking west over Letham Hill, this evening just after sunset.
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Alderney99
Joined: 10 Jan 2007
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Location: The Bay
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| Posted: Jan 10 22:37 Post subject: |
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| pbholmes wrote: | | It is bright..... |
Good pic! The "airliner headlights" effect shows up well. Looks like
a true "Great Comet" at this naked-eye size, intensity and tail.
Caught it at 5pm tonight from outside of BAe Systems north
front door - clear sky to the west - amazingly bright nucleus and very
long tail - makes the 2 "Great Comets" of 9-10 years ago look like
tiddlers.
Have to confess I was told to look at it by my wife! I'd no idea it
was there! - seems it only flared in the past few days (was
expected mag 11, now could be mag -2 today) - nothing on the usual
UK websites (BBC "Science", Astronomy Now, etc). Fortunately had
the 7x50s in the car, so all got a closer look before it went below
the clouds.
Further pics at [url]www.spaceweather.com [/url]- excellent site, lot of
aurora photos & other phenonema (e.g. they had a lot of Scottish
pics of the Oct 2003 aurorae) as well as sunspot monitoring, CME
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seabay
Joined: 01 Jan 2007
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Location: Seaford, East Sussex
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| Posted: Jan 11 18:40 Post subject: Comet McNaught |
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Great picture! No luck seeing the comet down here in Seaford (you could say, so far (mc) naught luck; ouch!). Am going to keep trying anyway!
By the way - did anyone catch the eclipse holiday featured on the BBC last night? The scene from Ghana of the eclipse that some of us (take a bow, Solar B!) caught in Turkey last year!
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Alderney99
Joined: 10 Jan 2007
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Location: The Bay
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| Posted: Jan 12 12:47 Post subject: Re: Comet McNaught |
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[quote="seabay"]"Great picture! No luck seeing the comet down here in Seaford (you could say, so far (mc) naught luck; ouch!). Am going to keep trying anyway!"
Mcnaught not visible here last night - heavy cloud, but even when
it cleared towards west at 5pm comet either below the cloud deck
or has moved sunward very rapidly - could'nt even see the tail.
"By the way - did anyone catch the eclipse holiday featured on the BBC last night? The scene from Ghana of the eclipse that some of us (take a bow, Solar B!) caught in Turkey last year!"
Missed that - but caught the 1999 eclipse from the Channel Islands
(from Alderney in 1999, oddly enough - still have the T-shirt!).
My own humble pics that day were no worse than the "Offical
Photographer's" ones - but the actual effects at the moment
of entering totality ("2nd contact"?) on the air temperature,
light conditions and sound ambience were unforgettable. |
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Dean
Joined: 03 Jan 2007
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Location: Rosyth
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| Posted: Jan 22 17:46 Post subject: Comet McNaught |
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This picture was taken by Robert McNaught (who discovered the comet)
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seabay
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Location: Seaford, East Sussex
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