Subject: Re: Comet watching-report from Eugene
Date: Mar 23 02:19:07 1996
From: Peggi Rodgers - peggir at aragorn.ori.org




On Fri, 22 Mar 1996, Tom Crabtree wrote:

It is very obvious.....

Same west of Eugene - couldn't miss it. We're at valley floor level,
however outside the influence of city lights. Very smudgey looking glob with a
globe of light in the middle - very pretty shade of blue. Like Tom we tried
looking at it with the scope and had the same results. Much better with
binoculars.

I tried for some photos, but the exposure times were quite long so we'll see
how they turn out.

The tail is a bit hard to see when it's low on the horizon (we were out at
shortly after 10:00) but became much more visible later at night (1:15 or
so).

Very definitely worth the viewing!

Peggi