Notes from Howard's Sabbatical from Working. The name comes from a 1998 lunch conversation. Someone asked if everything man knew was on the web. I answered "no" and off the top of my head said "Fidel Castro's favorite color". About every 6-12 months I've searched for this. It doesn't show up in the first 50 Google results (this blog is finally first for that search), AskJeeves says it's: red.
Will it be visible tomorrow? Also, pardon dumb question: the "northern skies" is where? ... in other words, would I look in the direction of route 93 north? ... :)... I know...
Basically look east. At 4am, the Pleiades are just north of East and the comet is I think just south of East. I think about 25 degrees about the horizon.
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Will it be visible tomorrow? Also, pardon dumb question: the "northern skies" is where? ... in other words, would I look in the direction of route 93 north? ... :)... I know...
Northern skys means northern hemisphere. Sky and Telescope has more including a finding chart.
Though the Boston Sky Chart shows it's forecast to be cloudy (find the time you want you want the column to be dark).
Basically look east. At 4am, the Pleiades are just north of East and the comet is I think just south of East. I think about 25 degrees about the horizon.
The question is: Is Howard getting up to see the comet at 4am or is he capping off his night of partying with some comet watching?
As it turns out, neither.
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