For 48 Hours Only!

Normally I don’t advertise that I’ve added content to my astronomy blog.  It’s a locked blog, so it doesn’t make sense.  However, in honor of the super-cool events in the sky this week, I unlocked the blog for the next 2 days so people can read this entry if they’d like:

Comet Watching

Disappointing

I am really sad. I wanted to see Comet 17P/Holmes tonight. It’s sort of a once in a lifetime thing when a comet partially explodes itself and becomes visible to the naked eye the way it has. Scientists can’t even totally explain why it was become so bright recently, at least not fully. And I saw the sucker before it got super-bright, before it was national news. I figure it’s gotta be even cooler now. So tonight I dragged Heather out to my dad’s house with me and we looked for the comet.

And by the time we got there, the damn sky was too cloudy to see anything.

Soooo disappointing.