Comet Holmes

[cjsmith]

I wish I knew where Rob keeps his binoculars. I looked in a couple of places around the house, but I failed to find a big arrow saying "AWESOME BINOCULARS OF AWESOMENESS: SEARCH HERE."

I'd love to take a look at Comet Holmes through those. I can see it with the naked eye (whenever the cloud cover gets thin enough), and my Pitiful Binoculars of Extreme Wimpiness just tell me the dot is blurry.

Comments

[idunno3.livejournal.com]

Thank you for posting this! I'd heard about the comet, but then forgot. Your posting prompting me to break out my binoculars AND my telescope at 9:30pm tonight, and I saw it right away. If only I could take pictures....

Oh, and damn these clouds and the moon!

[platypus]

Thank you for mentioning it! I saw something a few days ago, but stuff was on fire and I was sick and I figured by the time I had the opportunity to look it would be too late. Tonight, I thought it was cloudy because I couldn't see any stars out the window, but I bothered to go outside and it turns out that it's just moonlit and a little hazy. Very few visible stars, but once I knew where to look I spotted it right away. We have some 10x50s and it was indeed a nice fuzzy blob in them.