[Chaos-l] super bright comet

[Mark Montazer]

Looks like we might get one in March/April 2013 as well:
http://phys.org/news/2012-09-comet-pan-starrs-bright.html

Potentially as bright as Vega? Sounds like we're going to have a busy year!

Mark

On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Allen Davis
<starstorm151 at embarqmail.com> wrote:
> One part of this that I pull up in my memory.  Back when Hyakutake and
> Hale-Bopp appeared, we had some really great programs at Medoc.  For
> Hyakutake we had about 300 people.  This is the sort of event that gets
> folks going on astronomy again.
>
> allen
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: chaos-l-bounces at rtpnet.org [mailto:chaos-l-bounces at rtpnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Michael Hrivnak
> Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2012 12:56 PM
> To: chaos-l
> Subject: [Chaos-l] super bright comet
>
> http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/09/120927-new-comet-2012-s1-iso
> n-science-space-moon/
>
> Early predictions say that in late 2013, this comet could be brighter in the
> night sky than the full moon and possibly visible during the day. Sounds
> very exciting, although I can't help but think of how it could ruin deep-sky
> observing for an extended period.
>
> Michael
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