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[andrew_jorgensen]

Comets are coming!!

Hyakatuke and Hale-Bopp, back in the mid-nineties, provided me with some of my favorite sky viewing, so I'm guardedly hopeful about these two. Astronomy Magazine predicted that one might get up to 0.6 magnitude and the other 1.1, so I'm a little disappointed to see that Sky & Telescope suggests that LINEAR will max out at 2 and NEAT at 2.5. Well, I'm good on a clear but light-polluted Cleveland night to about magnitude 4.0, so here's hoping!

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Hmmm

[atpotch.livejournal.com]

I was just skimming these comments, thinking 'I know nothing about this, when will d'H get to his next joke', when I saw Total Solar Eclipse, and remembered that, entirely by co-incidence, I was at the one in 1999 (?) in Cornwall. It was genuinely rather exciting.

TCH

Re: Hmmm

[dherblay.livejournal.com]

We watched the same eclipse! We were thousands of miles apart, but there must be some connection there. I can't remember if "genuinely rather exciting" is English understatement or English irony, and considering the weather at Land's End that day, it could go either way, but I must say that a total solar eclipse is the most sublime sight I have ever had the fortune to behold. I'm glad that you've taken advantage of the chance.