astronomy - comet hyakutake - off topic

[J Strobridge]

Bryan Irby writes:


> with details, but it's going to be big and bright, and moving fast
> (enough to see it move) over the next few days, with max brightness
> (and size and speed) on monday.  It will be visible pretty much all
> night from the northern hemisphere starting sunday, and going through

yeah - but is it going to be bright enough to shine through 100% cloud
cover  8-(((

jill


Akcherly - if this comet *does* turn out to be visible then this'll
be the second wondrous heavenly sighting recently (viz some recent
"nacreous" cloud which set a lot of folk gossiping).   All we need is
a few falling fish or pigs (there's already been the wondrous sheep
birth of course) or Hawkwind to do a live gig and I'd say we were
well set up for the coming millenium.


>  Oh yeah, and there's also a lunar eclipse in two weeks.

full or partial?

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