Another problem is that with ordinary software it's easy to enhance photos so that the subjects look much better then they do by eve or in binoculars. -- Joe ------------------------------ On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 2:35 PM MDT Patrick Wiggins wrote:

On 13 Mar 2013, at 08:32, Chuck Hards wrote:

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This isn't a "Great Comet", by any means, actually it's not even a "good" comet.

Agreed that it's not a great comet but I'm not ready to demote it to "not good". Sunday evening it was very good. Easily seen from SPOC if one knew where to look.

By last evening it had faded but still displayed a nice little tail and obvious coma. Compared to most comets which can't be seen without a telescope I rated last night's view as good+.

And I know what you mean about over hyping. Every media person I've spoken to I've related the story of Comet Kohoutek and how its being over hyped ending up spoiling the view of the truly spectacular Comet West for so many people.

I'm concerned it's happening again. So many of the Pan-STARRS pictures being shown on TV were taken from down south when it was much brighter. And people are even openly speculating that ISON, and even its tail, will be visible during daylight. "Brighter than the full Moon." Give me a break! Let's all hope that'll be the case but let's keep those thoughts amongst ourselves until there is real evidence that it's happening.

Oh and Chuck, regarding crying wolf, have a look at yesterday's Bagley cartoon on the subject of crying wolf. :)

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