Comet P17/Holmes
Pulled my 6″ Dobsonian out of the garage to take a look at Comet P17/Holmes. The comet has been known for more than 100 years, but at the end of October it suddenly increased in brightness by over 1/2 million times (technically from magnitude 17 to 2.8). Currently part of the constellation Perseus and was easy to see with the naked eye once we knew where to look and was pretty cool in the telescope.
This isn’t one my pictures — It came off of a NASA site — but it pretty much duplicates what we saw tonight. My first comet and if you know someone who knows the constellations, it’s a pretty easy find. A once in a lifetime opportunity.
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Posted on 06-Nov-07 at 12:55 am | Permalink
Patti wrote:
Oh, very cool! I just wrote the index for a new astronomy book - I’m indexing all the Make books (subset of O’Reilly, but really all the coolest stuff). Learned a lot about the M numbers, etc.
Doing no glass, very little knitting, mostly just working and being a mom.
Posted on 24-Nov-07 at 11:59 am | Permalink
Peggy wrote:
Hey there,
I was googling Fred Boost and the only hit was on your post back in 1993. Do you know if Herr Boost is still around or how to contact him?
He was very influential to me, although I didn’t realize it at the time.
Peggy
p.s. great knitting. I especially like the humor in the sock scarf!
Posted on 29-Nov-07 at 2:22 pm | Permalink