McNaught’s Comet

McNaught at Karapiro
Originally uploaded by Tirau Dan.

I happened to wander outside tonight at about 11:15pm and gazed up at the night sky. Right there in my field of view was a spray of comet dust stretching across the sky. Unfortunately it was too dark for my camera to get a hold of anything useful, but there’s plenty of pics on Flickr.

From the nucleus to the end of the visible tail was about a hand’s length when you hold your arm out towards the sky. It’s supposed to be viewable for quite a while yet so get out there and have a squiz!

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  By Rodney, January 24, 2007 @ 6:49 pm

  Hey Guru! Yeah, I saw the comet a few nights ago from Wellington [we axtually had a clear night!!!]. Yep, impressive!

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