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Originally Posted by Saturnine
This is not good news, was really looking forward to seeing another bright comet, though not expecting it to be as glorious as McNaught in 2008. Will be following further updates with interest.
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Originally Posted by Matthieu
This is one of those cases where I’ll hope that there’s an element missing from the analysis. I was looking forward to it brightening up.
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Originally Posted by AstralTraveller
Sheesh, the cloud just chased me inside and then I read this. Sometimes this hobby is 'character building'. I'm off the watch a rerun of QI.
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Originally Posted by EpickCrom
Thanks for the update Joe. Like everyone I'm hoping Tsuchishan can stay intact and give us a show in a few months time!  |
I hope so too. Not trying to burst any bubbles here, just keeping expectations realistic. Comets are fickle and unpredictable. There's always a chance they are wrong. However, the paper seems on my reading, to be based on good methodology and analysis.
There were a couple of people who were going to travel some distance to stay at my dark sky property late September & early October for the comet perihelion. I've told them and they are at least holding off making any advance bookings of airfares.
Joe
Joe