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Index of Subjects To: All From: John Sollows Date: Feb. 23/08 > About 1970 we also had an unforgettable comet. We were told it would be at > its best about 4 a.m., and my comment was that I would be sleeping at that > time of the night. Fortunately the children woke us up at about that time > and while my wife tended to the children I looked out the window and saw > the most beautiful comet that ever blessed our skies. I can't remember the > name but there hasn't been another quite like it in my time. Yes, I remember it, well. It was in the spring of 1970. Comet Bennet. If any of us are around 500 years hence, we may see it again. You are right, Roland, it was the most spectacular comet that I have seen. Three plus years later (late 1973?), I got up many a cold morning looking for Kohoutek, which carried a lot more promise and a lot less spectable! > >> Hi Sherman & All, >> Is this perhaps because the iris adjusts somewhat to average light >> intensity and is consequently dangerously open with respect the bright >> arc of the nearly covered sun ? >> Yt, DW >> >> Sherman Williams wrote: >> >>> >
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