This comet is incredible

[IronWing]

Best since the 90s.

 

[BoomerD]

 

[IronWing]

I took 33 photos and two videos (30 seconds and 45 seconds) of the comet last night through a 25x spotting scope. Three of the photos and both videos had satellites in the frame.

 

[Brainonska511]

I went out last night around 640 EDT near Boston - wasn't quite dark enough at first, but I could clearly see it around 7 with a set of binoculars. Very cool.

I saw another comet a few years ago (summer 2020?) when we went out to Western Mass, and you could stargaze on this hairpin turn that overlooked the valley. So many stars and you could see the comment with the naked eye thanks to the substantially reduced light pollution out there.

 

[sdifox]

I saw Haley's in 1986 (in Argentina) with a telescope.

 

[IronWing]

I just remembered the name of the comet from the 90s, Hale-Bopp. That one was visible for months.

We had more haze last night so the comet was obscured earlier, the tail faint.

 

[Torn Mind]

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Took me a moment to realize it was referring to "Washington State, not D.C"

 

[IronWing]

The comet is still up there, fainter but visible to the naked eye. It's higher in the sky and with the moon rising later, it is visible for longer in the evening.

 

[Indus]

The comet is still up there, fainter but visible to the naked eye. It's higher in the sky and with the moon rising later, it is visible for longer in the evening.

I've tried looking for it but it's hard in the NYC area with all the light pollution.

 

[Brainonska511]

I've tried looking for it but it's hard in the NYC area with all the light pollution.

Given that the comet is on the west after sunset, and you being in Brooklyn, I feel like the light pollution would make it particularly difficult to see with the naked eye. You might be able to see it with binoculars.

 

[IronWing]

Also, the Orionids peak tonight.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

It was interesting and I could easily see it naked eye on the 13th forty five minutes after sunset , but didn't think it was as impressive as Pan-STARRS was in 2011 much less compared to the ridiculous display Hyakutake then Hale-Bopp gave one year apart in 96-97. Hyakutake came so close to the earth that you could see its tail in a brilliant blue-green for 90 degrees across the sky plain as day and Hale-Bopp was so bright at perihelion would have been comet of the century if not for Hyakutake, but never got anywhere near as close to the earth as Hyakutake did so wasn't nearly as mindblowing IMO. Saw Halley's Comet in 86 and that was incredible too when I got to a place with a dark sky where the tail was seemingly 90 degrees too, but Hyakutake did that just looking at it from my back yard in the city.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

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I will go to my grave royally pissed that was San Antonio on April 8th when the first full solar eclipse since the time of Chaucer came to the area. Still makes my blood boil to have to missed this once in ~700 years event.

 

[KLin]

"Aww crap, not again."

 

[IronWing]

Comet crossing through the Milky Way, fainter, still visible with binoculars.