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Comet McNaught Visible in Broad Daylight
AbsoluteXyro writes "As the amateur astronomers among us already know, Comet McNaught has been gracing the early morning and late evening skies... as it approaches the Sun, some estimate it has the potential to become 40 times brighter than Venus, or a magnitude of -8.8! In fact, it has recently been reported at SpaceWeather.com that Comet McNaught is now visible in broad daylight! From the article: "It's fantastic," reports Wayne Winch of Bishop, California. "I put the sun behind a neighbor's house to block the glare and the comet popped right into view. You can even see the tail.""
"I put the sun behind a neighbor's house to block the glare and the comet popped right into view. You can even see the tail."
He moved the sun. Impressive.
Lindsay Blanton
RadioReference.com
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I hope, when they die, cartoon characters have to answer for their sins.
Will it hit the earth and where ?
The fact that media is not saying anything about it may be the evidence of doomsday...
Warning on telescope - "Do not view the sun with remaining eye".
Oh no... it's the future.
Impressive? Not necessarily. It depends on which sun he's talking about. They range from 0.37kg to 1122kg.
I bet his neighbor was upset.
DRM 'manages access' in the same way that a prison 'manages freedom'
I'd like to take my kids out tonight, this sounds like a good excuse to drive north of the city.
:)
Will I still be able to see it, or will it be below the horizon? Any viewing tips?
I live in south-eastern Ontario, Canada (near ll=44.5,-76.7).
I used to have a computer program that told me about this stuff, and where to look... but, alas, it ran on my C-64 and probably doesn't know about this chunk of ice anyhow.
Do daemons dream of electric sleep()?
I think you won't see much more of it anymore, until it emerges from behind the sun.
In the Southern Hemisphere it will be visible in the following week or so. It is raining right now here in the Kingdom of the Zulu, and the weather service expects the rain to persist for the whole of next week. We don't complain about rain here in Africa (except when there are floods of course) but this is inconvenient.
I was seven years old in 1986, and I was really excited to see Halley's comet. The night that the comet was expected to be visible, I asked my mother to wake me up so that I can see it. The next morning, I asked her why she didn't wake me. She explained that I had been sleeping so peacefully, and that she didn't want to disturb me. I was bitterly upset. Oh well, 76 years isn't that long to wait.
I don't want to go outside.
Latewire
In completely unrelated news, George W. Bush decided to hastily invade Urugay. When asked to give official statement, he replied "The star up there! I didn't see it! I want to see it too!!! THE STAR UP THERE!!!", slightly incoherently.
Citizens of Urugay are united as they blame the occupation of their homeland by US forces on Slashdot for late post.
-- Yet another anonymous coward. Bugger.
I know who to blame for things like this: George Bush.
First he caused that hurricane, now this comet. Bill Clinton never caused any major natural disasters or evil omens.
we've had a week straight of cloud cover. Lights in the sky would only make the local bible-thumpers nervous anyway (Kansas).
Are you crazy ? All it would have taken is for someone to move the sun behind your side of the wall and you would have been instantly blinded !
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