Posted on 07/14/2020 8:57:31 PM PDT by MtnClimber
(More comet week) Explanation: Have you ever seen a comet? Tonight -- and likely the next few nights -- should be a good chance. Go outside just at sunset and look to your northwest. The lower your horizon, the better. Binoculars may help, but if your sky is cloudless and dark, all you should need is your unaided eyes and patience. As the Sun sets, the sky will darken, and there will be an unusual faint streak pointing diagonally near the horizon. That is Comet NEOWISE. It is a 5-kilometer-wide evaporating dirty iceberg visiting from -- and returning to -- the outer Solar System. As the Earth turns, the comet will soon set, so you might want to take a picture. In the featured image, Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) was captured two mornings ago rising over Stonehenge in the UK. Discovered with the NASA satellite NEOWISE toward the end of March, Comet NEOWISE has surprised many by surviving its closest approach to the Sun, brightening dramatically, and developing impressive (blue) ion and (white) dust tails.
(Excerpt) Read more at apod.nasa.gov ...
She’ll be comin’ ‘round the mountain....
Wait, I have time for Ramen Noodles...
Oh, heal yeah!!!
Really, I have sooo many oaks, I cannot see a blessed thing!
Hope most of you Freepers can see it.
I am cool, I got to see Hale-Bop many moons ago in the Kiamichi Mountains. Rocked my stuff.
Is there an APOD Ping List these days? I’d sure like to be on it (again).
I’m in your boat - a mountain bigger than mine behind me blocking the low horizon where we’d see it. But the photos that are circulating are something else, eh? I wonder what folks thought 6,766 years ago when they saw it?
Right now, as in 9:31pm pacific time, here’s a livestream. It was spectacular last night - tail visible and everything. s/b good tonite too, in about 20 min or so:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFrKVqeLYkI
I saw Hale-Bop too at Ft Irwin and filmed it with night vision.
A meteor bisected the tail, it was awesome!
Once again too cloudy here (and way too sunny by the time I got out of bed for the pre-dawn appearances).
Hale-Bopp stuck around for a long time - it ws visible for 18 month. That was a great time for comets, first Hyakutake in 1996 and then Hale-Bopp in 1997. Hyakutake was so bright because it passed about 9 million miles from Earth. Hale-Bopp on the other hand, was a huge comet so it was bright even though it was 122 million miles from Earth at closes approach.
I’ve been so disgusted and frustrated. We’re in a great location to have an unobstructed view of NEOWISE but we can’t get rid of clouds.
The old lady was like meh.....
I wanted a divorce on the spot....
How could you not love something like this? You will never see it again!
Meh
I am calling my lawyer....
Awesome ! Thank you.
>> Really, I have sooo many oaks, I cannot see a blessed thing!
When the leaves aren’t blocking your vision, they make you clean up their mess every fall.
Oaks are magnificent trees. Keeping them healthy in their elder years is a responsibility though...
Awesome!
What a cool pic!
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Clicky Da Picy
*APOD ping*
Stonehenge is a circle. It is a bullseye!
That comet is gonna hot right in the center!!
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