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.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
See Comet Lulin
Sky and Telescope describes how to Catch Comet Lulin at Its Best!. "There's a dim green comet in the sky this week (the last week in February), and you can spot it with a pair of binoculars — even through moderate light pollution. People have even been seeing it faintly with their unaided eyes in very dark, unspoiled, rural skies." At about 9pm this week look East-Southeast near Saturn. There's a chart on the site. Don't expect it to look this good....
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