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Time was moving slowly like some old movie scene
I saw Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, its eighty thousand years of eccentrically retrograde orbit triangulated from Arcturus and Rasalhague. It looked like a retinal smudge to the naked eye, no brighter than the Pleiades in a suburban afterdusk. With binoculars, the smear of the tail came clear. It is receding from us rapidly, nothing like the photographs from even a week ago. How much time there is to be seen in the sky.
"Hyperboloids of Wondrous Light," my ghost review for Derek Jarman and Alan Turing, has been accepted for reprint by Not One of Us. The only better home would have been Bryher's Close Up.
In about half an hour I shall look again if it is clear (it has just clouded) and see if I can notice its motion among the stars and also see what it looks like with the powerful eyepiece (×250). The group of 5 4th mag. stars in Delphinus come into the field of the finder in pairs.
—Christopher Morcom to Alan Turing, 6 January 1930
"Hyperboloids of Wondrous Light," my ghost review for Derek Jarman and Alan Turing, has been accepted for reprint by Not One of Us. The only better home would have been Bryher's Close Up.
In about half an hour I shall look again if it is clear (it has just clouded) and see if I can notice its motion among the stars and also see what it looks like with the powerful eyepiece (×250). The group of 5 4th mag. stars in Delphinus come into the field of the finder in pairs.
—Christopher Morcom to Alan Turing, 6 January 1930
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That's great! How did it happen?
I was prepared not to see this comet, but it was high enough in a dark sky and now I can feel connected to the Pleistocene.
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"Are you looking for the comet?" I asked.
"Yes!" she said.
So we hung out together. We saw many planes, Venus, and Antares, but not the comet.
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It's been very difficult now, at dusk given we've had a lot of cloud. But I did get one reasonable shot, a few frames worth.
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I'm so glad you've seen so much of it! Do you have any of the pictures where I could see them?
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Thank you! I love that it was bright enough for you to photograph with your phone.
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I love reading people's views of the comets.
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I love that so many people are seeing it. My FB friendlist has been full of photos.
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Thank you! I don't think it remembers our time, particularly.
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Congratulations on the reprint!
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I really didn't think I would see it before it left. This has been a really good year for astronomy.
Congratulations on the reprint!
Thank you! I am extremely happy it will have a print-and-ink existence. That still matters to me.
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Thank you!
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Thank you!
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Thank you! The comet does have the slight feel of a gift.