My son and I were out viewing the comet from the Lakeside area and saw it. It was pretty spectacular! Your description agrees pretty close with what I saw. By the way, although the skies were not all that clear, the zodiacal light was visible. The comet looked pretty good in my CG-11, but I didn't get any pictures. -----Original Message----- From: Jim Stitley [mailto:sitf2000@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 8:09 PM To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Bolide??? 4/2/02 at 7:45 pm MST due south I was traveling south on Bangeter Hwy, and stopped at the light at 5400 South. At 7:45 pm MST, A HUGE bolide(?) came into my view. It was about 25-30 degrees above the southern horizon. Angle about 75-80 degrees off vertical heading west. There was a bright white trail, followed by a yellow-orange flare followed by a fine bright blue one. The entire duation was several seconds and all extinguished at about the same time. The distance from the end of the white trail to the blue fireball was appro. 4-5 moon diameters. Did any else see it??? It was very bright - I would say the white trails might have been -2 magnitude or brighter. It was an incredible display!!! Wonder if anyone caught on film by accident. Would be interested in whether anyone else saw it. Jim Stitley __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Utah-astronomy mailing list Utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy