Too bad they didn't use one of Patrick's recent pictures of ISON. I think his are all better than the one featured in the article. I hope the optimistic predictions pan out. It must be something else to be able to see a comet in the daytime sky. I try to picture how the moon looks when it's up in the afternoon...kind of a translucent bluish gray...and then mold it into the shape of a sweeping comet. It's a fun thought experiment anyway... ~Kelly

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Message: 2 Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:45:23 -0600 From: Thomas Sevcik <sfv1ts@hotmail.com> To: SLAS astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Article on the "Comet of the Century!?" Message-ID: <BAY159-W55EB31CC9814705597BBF79AE90@phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

Interesting article I came across about what's already being hyped as the "Comet of the Century!" Sounds like the armada of space telescopes planned to observe ISON will make this one of the most space vehicle watched comets that I can recall. I just hope that the public will not become so desensitized by all the media coverage (mind-blowing images from Hubble for example) that they don't get outside and take a look for themselves.

http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/18/17361256-astronomers-gear-up-for... Tom Sevcik