# Cool, a comet! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 10, 2007, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-a-comet/387425 "2007-01-10T17:18:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-a-comet/387425/21 "2007-01-11T22:53:50Z")
Ah, yes. Now I remember the Kohoutek letdown. I also remember the report of Ikeya-Seki [Comet Ikeya–Seki - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Ikeya-Seki). But I didn’t see it. I’ve always been a bit interested in astronomy, and as a kid I was just waiting for Halley to return. I am baffled as to why I didn’t see Ikeya-Seki and West. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-a-comet/387425/22 "2007-01-12T03:07:13Z")
[Watch out, Nanking!](http://get-medieval.livejournal.com/1611.html) ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-a-comet/387425/23 "2007-01-12T09:03:04Z")
[QUOTE=rowrrbazzle] I’ve always been a bit interested in astronomy, and as a kid I was just waiting for Halley to return. [/QUOTE] Me too. Wasn’t worth a fifteen-year (or more) wait for me. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-a-comet/387425/24 "2007-01-14T20:53:17Z")
I just saw it! _In broad daylight!!_. I stood in the shadow of the eaves of my house at local noonish, and it took quite a bit of trying (ok, like 20-30 minutes; it was a bitch!), but I managed to spot it using some 10x50 binocs. I could see the bright head, and a bit of the tail. It was to the left and a little south from the sun’s position, at a distance from the sun of about the width of my fist held at arms length (just like [spaceweather.com](http://spaceweather.com) said). I’m heading for the coast later to catch a comet-sunset. Awesome! ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-a-comet/387425/25 "2007-01-14T22:20:17Z")
Want a good look at the comet? Check out the Lasco/c3 gif for today. [http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/gif/](http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/gif/) ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-a-comet/387425/26 "2007-01-15T01:33:29Z")
Saw it tonight! I went out at five-ish, after sunset, but still light. It is nice and bright, but in a big sky, it took me a bit to figure out where the sun had set. And there it was! It’s cold and clear here, so the circumstances were ideal. Pretty comet! ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-a-comet/387425/27 "2007-01-15T02:58:25Z")
Dammit. I did _not_ see it tonight, even though I was high up on a cliff on the California coast, and it was a cloudless sunset. Me and about a dozen other gazers looked in vain until it was fairly dark and the sun glow was all but gone. ---
**Author:** ![Phantom\_Dennis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/51bf81/32.png) [@Phantom\_Dennis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phantom_Dennis)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-a-comet/387425/28 "2007-01-15T03:24:03Z")
[QUOTE=squeegee] Dammit. I did _not_ see it tonight, even though I was high up on a cliff on the California coast, and it was a cloudless sunset. Me and about a dozen other gazers looked in vain until it was fairly dark and the sun glow was all but gone. [/QUOTE] Yeah, same here. I took a stroll along Newport Beach and spent about half an hour searching for it after the sun set. There were some small tufts of cloud on the horizon, but I still should’ve been able to see something… ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-a-comet/387425/29 "2007-01-15T05:13:55Z")
Yep. It was all for (mc)nought. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-a-comet/387425/30 "2007-01-16T23:54:57Z")
We got a good view of it last night (Tuesday) in Sydney. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-a-comet/387425.md?page=1)