Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site voder.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!nsc!voder!gino From: gino@voder.UUCP (Gino Bloch) Newsgroups: net.astro,net.space Subject: Re: Where's the best place to view Haley's Comet? Message-ID: <622@voder.UUCP> Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 14:12:17 EST Article-I.D.: voder.622 Posted: Fri Jan 11 14:12:17 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 14-Jan-85 04:40:13 EST References: <219@panda.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: National Semiconductor, Santa Clara Lines: 14 Xref: watmath net.astro:443 net.space:3523 > and when?? The best place to view HALLEY's comet (note the spelling; and it rhymes with ALLEY, not daily), is the southern hemisphere. The best time is spring 1986. Page 54 of Jan 1985 Sky & Telescope summarizes the ephemeris. It will reach naked eye visibility in December, and fade below that level around May 1986. But naked eye visibility means just barely and under good conditions. It will be brightest (but only around second magnitude) in late March and early April of '86. Not a great apparition this time, I'd say, so let's all look for a better apparition around 2061 or '2. -- Gene E. Bloch (...!nsc!voder!gino) Extend USENET to omicron Ceti.