Another sarcastic comment. What my post inferred was that this comet doesn't live up to the hype that the public is being exposed to. I've already taken verbal abuse from non-astronomers on this object- and many, many others that typically get an amateur astronomer's blood racing. By all means, comets such as this are worth observing- especially to those of you who live and breathe astronomy, and apparently have little else to occupy your free time- and those who are lucky enough to live under a dark sky. Even I am glad I went out and looked. I'm not as curmudgeonly as you migt think. But I don't feel like I have an obligation to drool and fawn publicly over every fuzzy thing that pops into the night sky. Those photos are generated artifacts that have nothing to do with the objects actual appearance in the eyepiece. On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Canopus56 <canopus56@yahoo.com> wrote:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090225.html
Yep, Lulin's definitely a useless cur. It's only worth looking at those once-in-40 year comets like McNaught or what's that other 40 year old comet you guys are always calling the "big one"? -:) Kurt