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I'm so pumped for Comet Ison aka C/2012 S1. I might be setting myself up for a massive disappointment, but I still remember watching comet Hale-Bopp in '97, looking out west from our driveway into the evening sky. For weeks! If only I was old enough to appreciate what I was seeing - an incredible comet event that might never occur in my lifetime again. Come November and onwards, we'll find out if the comet will amaze us or fizzle and disappoint us. I want to believe....

 
tschu said:
I'm so pumped for Comet Ison aka C/2012 S1. I might be setting myself up for a massive disappointment, but I still remember watching comet Hale-Bopp in '97, looking out west from our driveway into the evening sky. For weeks! If only I was old enough to appreciate what I was seeing - an incredible comet event that might never occur in my lifetime again. Come November and onwards, we'll find out if the comet will amaze us or fizzle and disappoint us. I want to believe....
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So you didn't drink the kool-aid with all the others.
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I'm pretty bummed about ISON, too. I was so stoked for the two comets this year, only to see Pan-STARRS completely underwhelm. Now it seems like ISON isn't going to be "as bright as the moon in the daytime sky" like they were hoping.

I was pretty impressed with Hale-Bopp back in the day - named a couple of my fantasy sports teams The Comets because of it - and I was really hoping this year would give us two such displays. Looks like we'll have to keep waiting.

 
SilentTreatment said:
Theres a comet thats going to be visible to the naked sometime in november. I forget the name but that should be pretty coo.
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That's ISON, and at this point, it's not living up to the hype. That could change, though, but for much at all to happen, it has to survive its close pass with the sun. And with such a close pass, nobody really knows if it will survive.

 
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