Cool! I saw Comet McNaught tonight

[Bill]

There's a great new comet getting brighter and brighter very close to the horizon these days, I found it tonight with binocs, once I'd seen it I could find it with bare eyes, it was totally pretty.

At sunset, find venus which will be very bright and relatively high in the western sky. The sun needs to be just below the horizon, and it (the sun) will be to the right of venus. The comet is to the right of where the sun is, maybe 10 to 15 degrees to the right of venus, well below venus.

It's a real pretty sight. It should be getting brighter and brighter over the next couple of weeks.

[Cleo]

That's kewl

Thought this was awesome. Menthane lakes on Titan.
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedi...m?imageID=2432

[[BV]]

http://moon.google.com/

Google has some awesome images of the moon. If you zoom in all the way you can even see the marks of the surface from past missions.

Keep zooming in and you can really see what the surface of the moon looks like.

[Lot]

I think it was beautiful
I've never seen comets , but i'd love to

[4Man]

That rocks!!!

[cd34]

regrettably, the comet is too low on the horizon for me to see from here -- I suppose if I were further west near the sugar cane fields I might be able to see it.

Or, if I lived in a condo on the 30th floor and could get the city residents to turn out the lights for a few minutes.

I remember using a 4.5" Edmund Scientific reflector telescope with a clock drive when I was in high school on cool december nights looking at planets, stars, galaxies, etc. It was cool to look at the moon, but, even with the clock drive, it didn't take long for the moon to roll out of view and require adjustment again. You never really notice how quickly the moon is moving until you look at it with a stationary telescope.

The last comet I saw was Hale-Bopp, and before that was Haley's comet. For Haley's, I actually got to view it at an observatory an hour or so outside DC in the foothills of the Appalachians -- so, not much terrestrial interference to worry about.