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From: gino@voder.UUCP (Gino Bloch)
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Subject: Re: Where's the best place to view Haley's Comet?
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Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 14:12:17 EST
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> 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.