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RE: (meteorobs) West, eh?
On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, THOMAS T WOJACK wrote:
> I read somewhere that on average, a comet reaches naked-eye visiblity
> every 3 years . Is this really true?
>
> Jonathan(NTZT04A@prodigy.com)
> http://pages.prodigy.com/Astro/homepage.htm
>
Seems like it would be more often, depending on if you consider naked-eye
visibility to be for the few or the many.
I saw Halley naked-eye in 1985-86; took a break from observing and missed
Austin and Levy in 1990; saw Swift-Tuttle naked-eye in 1992; DeVico in
1995; Hyakutake, Hale-Bopp, and Tabur in 1996 (wow)!
Anyway, for my money Hyakutake still beats Hale-Bopp for impressiveness
at a dark site, but the two are completely different in appearance.
--
Wes Stone <wstone@lclarkdot edu> Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR
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