I am planning to photograph it this week. I thought the Skull Valley road to Dugway would be a good place, even though I was unable to see it the last time I went there and looked (too late in the evening and too hazy, probably). -- Joe
Is anybody interested in meeting me on Little Mountain tomorrow night (Sunday) for a possible photo session?
My second choice would be on I-80, just south of the lake, by the second Grantsville exit.
I'd prefer Little Mountain due to it's altitude. The comet is too low for any kind of a dark sky background, regardless of location.
Other suggestions?
Chuck
BTW, I'd rate this comet as the fourth most-impressive I have ever seen. Number three is Hale-Bopp, number two is Hyakutake, number one is still comet West, which I saw as a high-schooler. In retrospect, I probably frightened my parents enormously, driving up to Little Mountain at three in the morning by myself with a driver's license still warm from the laminating machine! I hope I can see another one day as incredible as West. The textbook "Great Comet". Yes, I missed Ikeya-Seki thanks to "Star Trek" and the technological wonder of "color" TV....
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