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On This Day (UT)
At around 6:25 am tomorrow/tuesday morning (31st jan) ACDST it will 10 years exactly since Yuji Hyakutake of Japan discovered Comet 1996 B2 (Hyakutake) {30 jan 1996 .83}.
I was hoping to do a token honourary comet observation of a different morning comet in rememberence of this great moment in recent-ish Amateur observational Astronomy, but sadly the weather does not want to co-operate.
They say that great comets turn up about once every ten years on average (of course that cant be taken literally - it can be 20 years or more between sometimes, and then have two in one year - or two in as few years as in '96 and '97)
But here's hoping :-)
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