Hi,
In case I'm not the only one who has searched fruitlessly for Comet
PanSTARRS, it is visible right now, significantly north of west, and
higher in the sky than I expected - maybe ~6 full moon diameters (?)
above the horizon - I'm even worse at astronomical descriptions than
bird descriptions! But it is the lowest object I can see in the western
sky with the naked eye: a very faint dot from my backyard, but thru 10
power binoculars, it is far more impressive with a fairly wide filmy
tail pointing straight up.
And to make this marginally bird relevant, for the first time in
several nights there is not a mass of snow geese barking in the middle
of Seneca Lake tonight. They don't make as much noise as when they fly,
but there is a constant murmuring all night long many nights this time
of year.
Alicia in Ovid
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