A reason to get up early
Posted: 23:52 Mon 25 Nov 2013
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Will you get some pictures? Will you show them to us?
If you pop round I'll show you my slides.djewesbury wrote:Will you get some pictures? Will you show them to us?
Oh Derek...DRT wrote:If you pop round I'll show you my slides.djewesbury wrote:Will you get some pictures? Will you show them to us?
Get a room.djewesbury wrote:Oh Derek...DRT wrote:If you pop round I'll show you my slides.djewesbury wrote:Will you get some pictures? Will you show them to us?
We will know before the end of this week whether or not the comet still exists. If it does it will be visible from 1st to 19th of Dec just before dawn. It would be very rare to have 19 consecutive mornings in December in the UK without a frosty morning caused by an absence of cloud cover.AHB wrote:So let me get this right. You and the BBC are exhorting us to get up early in order to see a comet which:
(a) will not be visible from the Northern Hemisphere until Dec 1;
(b) will explode into nothingness when it passes through the Sun before Dec 1; and
(c) will be hidden by the clouds of the British autumn anyway
A little bit of it, from the 21st onwards. Surely a stargazer knows the date of the solstice?DRT wrote:We will know before the end of this week whether or not the comet still exists. If it does it will be visible from 1st to 19th of Dec just before dawn. It would be very rare to have 19 consecutive mornings in December in the UK without a frosty morning caused by an absence of cloud cover.AHB wrote:So let me get this right. You and the BBC are exhorting us to get up early in order to see a comet which:
(a) will not be visible from the Northern Hemisphere until Dec 1;
(b) will explode into nothingness when it passes through the Sun before Dec 1; and
(c) will be hidden by the clouds of the British autumn anyway
Isn't December in winter rather than autumn?
I think of winter in meteorogical rather than astronomical terms.djewesbury wrote:A little bit of it, from the 21st onwards. Surely a stargazer knows the date of the solstice?
I'm willing to give it a go.DRT wrote:We will know before the end of this week whether or not the comet still exists. If it does it will be visible from 1st to 19th of Dec just before dawn. It would be very rare to have 19 consecutive mornings in December in the UK without a frosty morning caused by an absence of cloud cover.AHB wrote:So let me get this right. You and the BBC are exhorting us to get up early in order to see a comet which:
(a) will not be visible from the Northern Hemisphere until Dec 1;
(b) will explode into nothingness when it passes through the Sun before Dec 1; and
(c) will be hidden by the clouds of the British autumn anyway
Isn't December in winter rather than autumn?
Here in Seattle, things are not so simple.DRT wrote:I am a simple soul. Meteorologists in the UK define winter as the three coldest months of the year, December, January and February. That does for me.
As I'm working nightshift most of DecemberI will be staying up and possibly enjoying a glass of port while I observe. If it turns out to be more than a damp squib,however, I may double decant a bottle and visit friends living in the country to get better view than with all the light pollution I get living in city centre.AHB wrote:So let me get this right. You and the BBC are exhorting us to get up early in order to see a comet which:
(a) will not be visible from the Northern Hemisphere until Dec 1;
(b) will explode into nothingness when it passes through the Sun before Dec 1; and
(c) will be hidden by the clouds of the British autumn anyway
Hrmphh. At least in the winter I usually get up a little before sunrise so might take a peek out of the windows just to admire the thickness of the cloud cover.
I knew that people north of the border were made of sterner stuff but a glass of port for breakfast after a night shift! Chapeau!mpij wrote:As I'm working nightshift most of DecemberI will be staying up and possibly enjoying a glass of port while I observe. If it turns out to be more than a damp squib,however, I may double decant a bottle and visit friends living in the country to get better view than with all the light pollution I get living in city centre.AHB wrote:So let me get this right. You and the BBC are exhorting us to get up early in order to see a comet which:
(a) will not be visible from the Northern Hemisphere until Dec 1;
(b) will explode into nothingness when it passes through the Sun before Dec 1; and
(c) will be hidden by the clouds of the British autumn anyway
Hrmphh. At least in the winter I usually get up a little before sunrise so might take a peek out of the windows just to admire the thickness of the cloud cover.
I thought it was spelled 'NO ONE LIVES THERE'LGTrotter wrote:Lovely stuff about growing up in Nebraska Glenn. Now where is Nebraska...
You'll note that I no longer live there...djewesbury wrote:I thought it was spelled 'NO ONE LIVES THERE'LGTrotter wrote:Lovely stuff about growing up in Nebraska Glenn. Now where is Nebraska...
Poor soul.Glenn E. wrote:Of course, growing up in Nebraska was hardly better.
The astronomical equivalent of a 1983 horizontal.LGTrotter wrote:News update on 'a reason to get up early'; stay in bed.
That good? No stand outs?DRT wrote:The astronomical equivalent of a 1983 horizontal.LGTrotter wrote:News update on 'a reason to get up early'; stay in bed.
It appears that the 1983s flew too close to the sun. The Niepoort seems to have been shielded by something, but not to a degree that would make it stellar.LGTrotter wrote:That good? No stand outs?DRT wrote:The astronomical equivalent of a 1983 horizontal.LGTrotter wrote:News update on 'a reason to get up early'; stay in bed.