8 Jan
2007
8 Jan
'07
7:15 p.m.
I saw the comet at sunset tonight. I was on the high bench east of the U of U campus. The Oqirrh mountains were low enough to see over to the wsw. The comet became visable in 20x80 binoculars about 3 degrees up at 5:45pm mst and I followed it into the ground at 6:02pm. Bright nonstellar nucleus with a fan shaped tail almost a degree long. The comet was right at the red/blue dividing line of the sunset colors when first spotted. Without optics it and its tail were visable once you knew where to look. Better jump on this one, it won't be around for long. DT __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com