For many of us:The Great and Frustrating Comet of 2007

You can read my my frustrations and exhilirations with this comet. At best some of us as I did had a few marvelous days but :we got the short end of the stick" with the even more spectacular Comet McNaught that showed up after it rounded the Sun and could only be seen in the Southern Hemisphere (a few could see the tail from the US).
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The Great and Frustrating Comet of 2007
Northern hemisphere stargazers have never had any shortage of reasons to be jealous of our southern hemisphere cousins.

Dr. Eric Flescher (kcstarguy@aol.com), Olathe, KS: : E.O.A.S. (Earth, Oceans, Atmosphere and Space) Blog -

See my latest photos of the bright comet McNaught

I have been looking into my latest photos of the bright comet a couple of weeks ago. Taken 1/10/07 near Kansas City, KS.
Here is one of the more photogenic ones.
The comet is between the bright red cloud bank near the horizon and the other darker one on top. Comet with tail is in middle of the photos.
At that time it was probably -1 magnitude about 1/3 the brightness of Venus, the bright "star" you see in the West after sunset.
I was so excited I forgot to zoom in closer.
Also it did not help that my better digital camera conked out in December so I used my kodak digital one instead. (it is not bad after all I did shoot a picture of the eclipse of 2001 that got into Astronomy magazine).
Now I have to work on the video I took of the comet which was not bad either .
Let me know what you think.