lollycross wrote:It reminds me of an early Star Trek episode when all the Greek "gods" just spread themselves thin and vanished in the wind cause the
people didn't need them any more.
Yes, that was in the real Star Trek, not the bastardized imitations they have these days.
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--Wellsprings--
The best views were in the middle east, I understand.
Back in the late 70s during my first public school teaching job, there was a beautiful comet with two tails, and a 99% eclipse of the sun. I borrowed the reflector telescope from the school and it would fill the entire field of view. It was much bigger than Hale-Bopp.
My Mom saw the 1910 Halley comet (she was 10) and it covered the entire sky from horizon to horizon for a couple of nights, she said.
I had my science class make pinhole camera viewboxes to view it. They didn't get any time out of class, though, because the eclipse was on the weekend.
It was clearly visible here although I only saw it on TV news. On the big red orb was a moving black dot. That's what you missed. The dot was small enough to have been very missable without a powerful telscope.
BTW, isn't that what you were expecting to see? What were you expecting to see?
For my part, I'd rather see a humble black dot than any number of virtual film spectaculars.
Here's a good twilight shot of Hale-Bopp that was made into a rather spectacular poster. Not sure if this was before the Nikes-n-koolaid crowd from lalaLand boarded or not.
