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And all the stars were crashing round

I just walked out through the dead leaves in the side yard and looked for the exploding comet with a pair of binoculars, but I didn't need them: it's a diffuse, distinct halo of light below Perseus, triangulated with Mirfak (Alpha Persei) and Delta Persei. This is wonderful.

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Not a hope. I can barely make Orion out. Maybe as it westers? The light
pollution is fierce looking east toward the city.

Damn.

Nine

Yes! Like a tiny round erasure near Mirfak; like the full moon through the wrong end of a spyglass, veiled in cloud. Unstarlike.

But I needed binoculars.

Nine

i wish I"d known. And nowit's getting light here.

I saw it without realizing I saw it (looking for it elsewhere in the sky last week, and thinking, "Hmm, aren't there more stars in Cassiopeia than usual?") I need to try to get another look now that it's gotten more halo-ed.

Will it still be visible tonight I wonder?

How cool!

Lovely.

I'll try to look for it tonight.

i wish I"d known. And nowit's getting light here.

I suspect it will still be visible tonight—I don't think, from our perspective, it's going anywhere in the next twenty-four hours.

ike a tiny round erasure near Mirfak; like the full moon through the wrong end of a spyglass, veiled in cloud.

Isn't it awesome?

But I needed binoculars.

You have more light pollution. Under no stretch of the definition does Lexington qualify as rural, but at least there are fewer streetlights on our block than there used to be.

Will it still be visible tonight I wonder?

I'd assume so—at least, I'm going to be looking for it again. Take a photograph!

I'll try to look for it tonight.

Awesome. Don't freeze!

"Hmm, aren't there more stars in Cassiopeia than usual?"

Yes. How often do you get to say that?

I need to try to get another look now that it's gotten more halo-ed.

Good luck! Watch out for hypothermia . . .

If only! But I haven't the skill (or the camera) to take pictures of celestial objects. But I'll take a look and hope to see it.

Very nice picture here.

Nine

Thanks! I'll try not to.

And don't you, either, please. ;-)

Rats, it was too cloudy. Maybe later tonight.

Or tommorrow; I've got to catch an early train, as my professor missed class last week, and we're making it up at eleven am.