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From: canopus@amdahl.UUCP (Alpha Carinae)
Newsgroups: net.astro
Subject: Re: Halley's Comet naked-eye visible
Message-ID: <2464@amdahl.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 2-Jan-86 14:31:23 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan  2 14:31:23 1986
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> (Alan Silverstein):
> The January, 1986 Sky and Telescope says the first known naked-eye
> sighting of Halley's Comet during this apparition was by two people in
> California at 0145 PST, March 8, 1985.  They were at 7000' in the San
> Gabriel Mountains (north of LA) and estimated the magnitude at 6.3 or
> 6.5.
> 
  I read the article (p. 27), it was *November* 8th.  On March 8th,
  the comet was about mag 16, and over 400 million miles away!   The
  rest of the info you give is accurate.

  I do hope you get to see it before the end of January.  Weather here
  has been terrible the past two weeks - we are buried in fog!
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