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New Comet for the New Year
spac3manspiff writes "The news has several stories about a fairly new comet named Comet Machholz discovered by Don Machholz. The comet will be able to be seen in the sky on Jan. 1 and Jan. 2 or Jan. 5 through 8. Along with the comet's appearance: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will all be able to be seen with a naked eye this month. However, you will need binoculars to see the comet."
This is the 10th comet found by Don Macholz, and only now has he hung his name on one? If this one isn't really Macholz 10, I'd love to know who he named the first nine after.
Who is John Cabal?
Yeah, well, here in the good ol Hew Ess Aye, West Virginia to be exact, its too damned overcast to see anything tonight.
Besides I wasn't gonna stand out there in my bvd's for very long, I've got a cold & miserable.
But, if it was clear, I'd sure have my 7x35's out to take a look, it seems that the huge majority of the so-called naked eye comets have coincided with mostly overcast skys for the last 20 years.
Its a crying shame when man can't see off the planet he was born on, and its man thats responsible for most of the dirt in the air. But I can remember when you could see forever almost everynight, back in the late 30's thru the early 50's. The milky way was blazingly bright against a black velvet sky covered with twinkling stars from horizon to horizon.
And then man moved to town and took up selling the real estate where the skys were truely clear, to some developer, putting up street lights and other crap to blind us all...
But don't blame me, I wasn't that man. I was busy learning how to fix this newfangled thing called TV back then.
Cheers & a better 2005 to all, Gene