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03-20-2020, 11:30 PM
Comet ATLAS
Coming soon to a sky near you, Comet ATLAS is brightening very rapidly. If it survives then it could become visible to the unaided eye in the next week or two. Its peak magnitude in early May is difficult to predict but best bets range from an impressive magnitude +1 to a dazzling -5! The latter would make it visible in broad daylight.
Yes, I know, yet another harbinger of doom. Just what we needed.
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03-20-2020, 11:35 PM
Comet ATLAS
I'd like to see some charting to help us find it now.
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03-20-2020, 11:40 PM
Comet ATLAS
(03-20-2020, 11:30 PM)Paleophyte Wrote: Coming soon to a sky near you, Comet ATLAS is brightening very rapidly. If it survives then it could become visible to the unaided eye in the next week or two. Its peak magnitude in early May is difficult to predict but best bets range from an impressive magnitude +1 to a dazzling -5! The latter would make it visible in broad daylight.
Yes, I know, yet another harbinger of doom. Just what we needed.
I know whose doom I'd like for it to predict! I can just imagine the religulous looking at that portent in the sky... and buying more toilet paper!
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03-20-2020, 11:41 PM
Comet ATLAS
Look, don't tease us. Is it going to crash into Earth or not?
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03-20-2020, 11:48 PM
Comet ATLAS
sheeit Jerry read the link. No portent of doom in there. It might just burn out before we get the best views.
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03-21-2020, 12:09 AM
Comet ATLAS
(03-20-2020, 11:41 PM)jerry mcmasters Wrote: Look, don't tease us. Is it going to crash into Earth or not?
We should be fine. It's observing planetary distancing.
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03-21-2020, 12:11 AM
Comet ATLAS
(03-21-2020, 12:09 AM)Paleophyte Wrote: (03-20-2020, 11:41 PM)jerry mcmasters Wrote: Look, don't tease us. Is it going to crash into Earth or not?
We should be fine. It's observing planetary distancing.
We should call Bruce Willis and have him ready, just in case.
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03-21-2020, 12:16 AM
Comet ATLAS
(03-20-2020, 11:41 PM)jerry mcmasters Wrote: Look, don't tease us. Is it going to crash into Earth or not?
We should be so lucky!
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03-21-2020, 12:16 AM
Comet ATLAS
(03-20-2020, 11:35 PM)skyking Wrote: I'd like to see some charting to help us find it now.
Looks like it's mucking about off the tip of the Big Dipper right now.
Slated to pass through Perseus round about perihelion, so well-located for northern hemisphere observers.
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03-21-2020, 12:29 AM
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Comet ATLAS
thanks man, I am a relative novice but I can always locate the dippers
We have clear skies at night for the next two. Already plotting a drive to the top of a nearby pass to get rid of the big city lights.
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03-21-2020, 12:48 AM
Comet ATLAS
If it gets as bright as they're predicting then just look up. It will get difficult to miss if it gets into the negative magnitudes even with light pollution.
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03-21-2020, 12:52 AM
Comet ATLAS
I am talking about now, not in May. It may not survive intact till the high magnitude times.
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03-21-2020, 06:33 AM
Comet ATLAS
Cosmic traffic lights. Betelgeuse dimming and then ATLAS showing up.
(grabs towel, Just In Case)
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03-21-2020, 08:05 AM
Comet ATLAS
(03-21-2020, 06:33 AM)Astreja Wrote: Cosmic traffic lights. Betelgeuse dimming and then ATLAS showing up.
(grabs towel, Just In Case)
DON'T PANIC
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03-21-2020, 08:25 AM
Comet ATLAS
Fuck that. A motion to panic is always in order.
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03-21-2020, 08:55 AM
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(03-21-2020, 08:25 AM)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Fuck that. A motion to panic is always in order.
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Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
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03-21-2020, 09:10 AM
Comet ATLAS
Yeah, whatever that means!
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03-22-2020, 02:05 AM
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(03-21-2020, 09:10 AM)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Yeah, whatever that means!
Sounds like you may need ...........
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
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03-22-2020, 03:14 AM
Comet ATLAS
Robert G. Ingersoll : “No man with a sense of humor ever founded a religion.”
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03-22-2020, 03:54 AM
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But "We're all gonna die" is Beaker's normal mode!
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03-22-2020, 09:17 AM
Comet ATLAS
(03-22-2020, 02:05 AM)brewerb Wrote: (03-21-2020, 09:10 AM)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Yeah, whatever that means!
Sounds like you may need ...........
Won't work for me, I'm male.
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03-24-2020, 07:56 PM
Comet ATLAS
For those of you looking for it with telescope or bincoulars:
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03-25-2020, 12:01 PM
Comet ATLAS
Oh, great! Along comes a great opportunity for astrophotography and I sold my observatory in 1990.
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03-25-2020, 01:21 PM
Comet ATLAS
(03-25-2020, 12:01 PM)Gwaithmir Wrote: Oh, great! Along comes a great opportunity for astrophotography and I sold my observatory in 1990.
Use your cell phone.
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