Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site bmcg.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!ittatc!dcdwest!sdcsvax!bmcg!dann
From: dann@bmcg.UUCP (Dann McCreary)
Newsgroups: net.astro
Subject: Re: StarDate: March 2 Predawn Stargazing (COMET REPORT)
Message-ID: <2062@bmcg.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Mar-86 13:21:19 EST
Article-I.D.: bmcg.2062
Posted: Wed Mar  5 13:21:19 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 8-Mar-86 03:02:44 EST
References: <450@utastro.UUCP> <2060@bmcg.UUCP>
Reply-To: dann@bmcg.UUCP (Dann McCreary)
Organization: Burroughs Corp. ASG, San Diego, CA.
Lines: 25
Keywords: Comet Halley viewing
Summary: Oops! Second guess on viewing schedule....

In article <2060@bmcg.UUCP> dann@bmcg.UUCP (Dann McCreary) writes:
>
>By the way, I think that Sunday morning, the 9th, may offer quite a lovely
>show - the comet in the sky along with a nearly-new crescent moon.  I'm
>prepared to be impressed!  I'd recommend that you be out there no later than
>4 AM, and you may even see the comet tail rising in the dark pre-dawn sky
>before you see the nucleus.  I'll be interested in hearing reports from other
>viewers.
>
After checking moon rise times in the almanac, I think that maybe *Saturday*
morning, the 8th, may be better for a moon/comet combination view.  On Sunday,
the moon will be rising about the same time as the sun, and that means that
the comet will already be a ways up in the sky.

If you can, I suggest you at least peek out early in the morning each day this
week, and that way you will have a much better feel for the moon and the
comet as they progress across the sky.

-- 
				   /
Dann McCreary	      Burroughs	===/=== Corporation
				   /
Distributed Systems Group	 MS-703		(619) 485-4585
10850 Via Frontera    San Diego		CA    92128
{decvax || ucbvax || ihnp4 || philabs}!sdcsvax!bmcg!dann