The Comet of the Year is Coming Soon - 46P Passes Mars' Orbit & is Heading our Way

Posted by $ nickursis 6 years, 6 months ago to Science
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We may have a good comet for Christmas....


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  • Posted by Herb7734 6 years, 6 months ago
    It will be interesting to determine the water content of the comet in order to substantiate whether comets and meteors actually did create earth's oceans.
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  • Posted by $ 6 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That would be 2 very different locations, so we just need to have it break up early, a chunk for Soros, and a chunk for swamp removal....
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  • Posted by $ 6 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I do agree with the hyp thing, I have gone out to see the aurora when they say it will be down far enough to see in Oregon and pfffftt.. time wasted.
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  • Posted by $ 6 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Ah, a friend of mine showed me an answer to that:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3F_a...

    and

    http://www.craigcolvin.com/astronomy/...

    Now this supposedly works for binoculars, but I would think it might work for cameras as well,

    If not then consider if your camera has a port you can send to a monitor? Other wise look into a CCD camera for your telescope, and port it to a PC you can see on the screen what you are photographing. There are even mounts for some of the different type scopes to mount your SLR onto the telescope body and use it as your CCD.
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  • Posted by starznbarz 6 years, 6 months ago
    We`re always told there will be "multiple celestial fireworks per minute, best one so far" and like clockwork I get up at 2 a.m. , trudge multiples of camera set ups out in the yard and,,, end up with the same sore neck I got when operating a crane - and no photographic rewards to show for it. Stupid galaxy.
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  • Posted by $ Radio_Randy 6 years, 6 months ago
    Any chance it might land on D.C. (or, maybe, George Soros' house)?
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 6 years, 6 months ago
    Cool! Me dino really enjoyed seeing the Hale-Bopp Comet in the night sky. Haley's had been a disappointment.
    First I've heard of a next one. Thanks.
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  • Posted by exceller 6 years, 6 months ago
    Many thanks for the heads up, Nickursis.

    I still did not catch the dates when we'll be able to see it.
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