[meteorite-list] Comet McNaught Is Now A DAYLUGHT COMET!

[Gerald Flaherty]

GREAT NEWS. PREDICTABLE IF YOU'D SEEN IT!!
Jerry Flaherty
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 9:31 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Comet McNaught Is Now A DAYLUGHT COMET!


> http://spaceweather.com/
> 
>    "Comet McNaught is now visible in broad 
> daylight. '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!'
>    Just hours ago, Mark Vornhusen took this 
> picture of the comet between clouds over 
> Gais, Switzerland <photo>
>    This weekend is a special time for Comet 
> McNaught because it is passing close to the sun. 
> Solar heat is causing the comet to vaporize 
> furiously and brighten to daylight visibility. At 
> magnitude -4 to -5, McNaught is the brightest 
> comet since Ikeya-Seki in 1965. 
>    The secret to seeing McNaught: Get rid of the 
> sun. You can do this by standing in the shadow 
> of a tall building or billboard. Make a fist and hold it 
> at arm's length. The comet is about one fist-width 
> (5 degrees) east of the sun's position. Try it! 
>    Warning: Binoculars dramatically improve the 
> view of the comet, allowing you to see structure 
> within the tail . But please be super-careful not to 
> look at the sun. Direct sunlight through binoculars 
> can cause permanent eye damage."
> 
>    The comet is now as bright or brighter than
> Venus, which can usually be seen in the daylight
> if you know where to look. A good trick (often
> recommended for spotting Venus in daylight) is
> to take a small cardboard mailing tube one inch or
> more in diameter or the central tube out of a roll 
> of paper towels and put it to one eye as if it were 
> a telescope (closing the other eye, naturally).
> 
>    I would love to give you a first hand description,
> but I happen to be in the dead middle of a classic 
> midwestern ice storm. Every leaf, branch, twig, 
> and blade of grass is sheathed in a centimeter of
> ice, and the sky has been a dark grey wooly mass
> for two days of perpetual twilight. If the Sun went
> supernova, I wouldn't have been able to see it...
> 
>    Somewhere the Sun is shining, somewhere the
> comet's flying, but there is no joy in Mugville; the
> Visible Universe has struck out.
> 
> 
> Sterling K. Webb
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