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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
All time observation: Comet McNaught from Lostock Jan 2007 was an almost religious experience and easily the most awinspiring thing I have ever seen in the sky, I could well understand how the ancients worshipped such things not knowing what they were.
Mike
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Hi Mike,
The view that Saturday night from the very inappropriately named "Mount Disappointment", is something I will remember forever. The mountain that night surely didn't disappoint. It rates right up there for me as one of my all time great lifetime experiences. "Religious" is an appropriate description.
Andrew Murrell, Gary Kopff, Lachlan McDonald, Tony Buckley and I were the last to leave the top of Mount Disappointment. Murrell kept taking pictures of it. I couldn't stop lookin' at it.
The sad thing is, I reckon over 70% of people that bothered to go to the top of the mountain, left and drove back to IISAC 2007 before full dark and the Comet Tail reached maximum brightness and visibility. Those that stayed to full dark were appropriately rewarded. An unforgettable experience.
Cheers,
John B