I can haz comet!

[byslantedlight]

Yeay! Okay, this is NASA's apod picture from the 2nd of December, and I definitely didn't see the spiral galaxy, and actually I didn't even see the comet looking like that either, but... I saw the fuzzy grey blob that is the comet through binoculars! Whoo-hoo! And thank you very much to snailbones who saw it yesterday and described it as a fuzzy grey blob so that when I finally saw it I recognised it straight away. *vbg* I spent ages not looking in the right place, but I persevered with the various quite-vague-really charts I could find on t'interweb, and I found it! As soon as I did there was no mistaking it for a star either, which is what I thought I'd probably do.

So yeay - for the first time in my life, because I've missed all the other ones, including the apparently spectacular Hale-Bopp (*sniffs*) - I've seen a comet, zooming its way across the universe! *vbg*

Comments

[heliophile-oxon.livejournal.com]

Brilliant! A real comet ... it's fantastic just to think that humans know enough to find them and track them, really. Very :-))))))) for seeing it!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Isn't it fabulous to think of them up there, whizzing through, seeing all the things that we can't see... Yeay for seeing it!

[miwahni.livejournal.com]

Isn't it exciting! I still remember the thrill of seeing Halley's comet in the late eighties - living at the time in a cooler climate, and rugging up before going outdoors of an evening to try and spot it. Great times!

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

Brilliant! You managed to find it - it's not the easiest critter to spot, is it?

And congratulations! I didn't realise you hadn't seen one before - I wish it'd been as lush as Hale-Bopp for your first, but at least you've seen one! Yay!