OFF: Comets

[Robert B. Welch]

On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, M Holmes wrote:

> William Fuller writes:
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> > On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Baron Bloom wrote:
> > > Here is a page that has some trippy spacy stuff, w photos of Hale-Bopp:
> > > http://www.artbell.com/index-main.html
>
> Where is Hale-Bopp at the moment? I was on a rare out of town expedition
> and noticed an even rarer clear sky. I thought I saw something that
> didn't belong there off the left side of the crosstie of the Northern
> Cross. Magnitude was about 1.0
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>            X       *        *         *
>            ^
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>    Mystery Object
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> So was that it or was it just a plane coming in or something?
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> Maybe I'll get a good view when I'm in Canada (Banff) at the start of April?
>

Congratulations. You found it. Yes, that was Comet Hale-Bopp. The start
of April should be a wonderful time to view it, as it will be at
perihelion on April 1. The comet should be a very prominent object in the
evening sky. And for observers far enough north, it should be visible all
night.

Robert Welch

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