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IT IS TIME to pay your respects and say goodbye to Comet C/2020 F3, more commonly known as Neowise.
It was one of the brightest comets to appear in our skies for years, but it is now dimming, and won’t be back for many thousands of years.
You’ll still be able to spot it, however.
When we say ‘brightest’, it’s a very low bar. It’s just about visible with the naked eye in urban areas – but with a tripod and any camera with manual controls, you should be able to get a photo.
Get yourself to a rural area with little light pollution, and you’ll be laughing.
If you can’t be bothered, perhaps this quiz will suffice?
V interesting….altho this part should be renamed the Comet section…
@Master O:
Nice One of the Week!
@Master O: N ice
I know I can’t bloody see it because of the rotten weather!
@Colette Kearns:
Same here.
My last viewing of a Comet was Hale-Bopp.
Feel like I’ve been robbed of a view of a lifetime.
@Kenneth Hayden: in fairness though Hale-Bopp was pretty spectacular. I remember sitting at a bus stop in Swords and looking up at it, clear as day in the night sky thinking “oh there’s the comet again”. We’d become so used to seeing it so clear.
@Kenneth Hayden: I remember that also & we could actually see it from outside our house, also we should remember they said we would never see anything like it again in our lifetime and yet… but it’s wonderful all the same ( for the ones that can see it) x
@Kenneth Hayden: a view of many lifetimes :-(
When reading the question stating “it’s not classed as a great comet”…
anyone else have Eamon Dunphy ringing in their ears saying “No, no. It’s a good comet, not a great comet”
I was working offshore when Hale-Bopp flew over a few years ago. It lit up the whole night sky as if it was daytime. Amazing.
@Stephen Deegan: That’s the sun you’re thinking of
The Philae lander that landed on 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko was partly successful, it landed successfully and sent back a few photos, but it landed in the shadow of a rock and without sunlight illuminating its solarpanels its batteries soon ran out.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=pia19095
@David Jordan: I think Bruce Willis land on one as well.
Bill Haley and the Comets: LOL.
Well at least I know how to spell commit
10/10 feck knows how
@alphasully:
Comet the hour, comet the man! Well done! Got something similar here. 1 right 0 with the others.
Saw it last night thankfully before it disappears.
6/10. I remember when Halley’s Comet was last here. One of the radio stations ran a competition where the prize was a seat on an Aer Lingus flight that was specially commissioned to observe the comet.
First ever 10/10. I was always a bit of a nerd, but never realised how much of one until now
I knew the landing on a Comet one was false from Armageddon!
@Joe Kennedy: “Do you know Evel Knievel?”
“No, I never saw Star Wars.”
Finally one I know about. 10 out of 10
The comet in question 7 looks like a tiger!!!
Damm – 9/10, I was SO sure the last one was ‘Ham’
8/10 happy with that
All I know is they comet then they goet.
1/10. Less said the better.
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