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Reasons to be cheerful - 2020

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    We watched Halley’s Comet from our garden sometime back in the 90s 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I found the fat, voracious snail that has been turning my hostas into doilies.
    He can stuff his face in the brown bin -  for now.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Alan Clark2 in LiverpoolAlan Clark2 in Liverpool Posts: 2,190
    This site shows the position of NEOWISE. At present it is best seen in the early morning twilight. It is only as bright as a bright star so binoculars will be helpful - it is much more impressive in photos than to the eye.

    https://www.schoolsobservatory.org/learn/astro/nightsky/maps/hz02

    Over the next few weeks it will move further out of the Sun's glare and also become more of an evening object. It might be visible tonight around 10pm with difficulty, low in the North-West, but in another week it will be much easier to see.

    Good hunting!
  • Alan Clark2 in LiverpoolAlan Clark2 in Liverpool Posts: 2,190
    Dovefromabove said:
    We watched Halley’s Comet from our garden sometime back in the 90s 
    It was actually late 1985 and early 1986.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited July 2020
    Goodness me ... was it really?!?!?! 😯

    whoops!  I’ve just been informed it was Hale Bopp 🤭

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Alan Clark2 in LiverpoolAlan Clark2 in Liverpool Posts: 2,190
    Dovefromabove said:
    Goodness me ... was it really?!?!?! 😯

    whoops!  I’ve just been informed it was Hale Bopp 🤭
    That was 1997. More like it!
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Yep that was it 👍 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    I know its warming up when Mr & Mrs Blackbird start sunbathing.


    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • NewBoy2NewBoy2 Posts: 1,813
    Soon be back in TH first team Doc.

    Well done matey.

     B) 
    Everyone is just trying to be Happy.....So lets help Them.
  • NewBoy2NewBoy2 Posts: 1,813
    The pond plants for my noew allotment pond arrive this week 2 weeks early.

    Im like a 6 year old at Christmas waiting for Santa.

    Yes he does exist. o:)
    Everyone is just trying to be Happy.....So lets help Them.
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