Chuck, I would rate Comet West as second to Comet Bennet. Ikeya Seki in my recollection was not as good as either, probably equivalent to Hyakutake. It was better than Ikeya Zhang, though, and the anti tail was pretty neat too. Brent --- Chuck Hards <chuckhards@yahoo.com> wrote:
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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