{"id":8330,"date":"2007-01-09T23:45:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T23:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/groupeastronomiespa.be\/astrogas\/the-surprise-comet\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T22:49:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T20:49:37","slug":"the-surprise-comet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/groupeastronomiespa.be\/astrogas\/the-surprise-comet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Surprise Comet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just after sunset, clearings formed west of Munich. In spite of remaining cloud bands, McNaught was conspicuous to the naked eye (about -2 mag, not much fainter than Venus) and gorgeous with binoculars. The brightest comet since Hale-Bopp in 1997, and arguably the loveliest one since West in 1976.
\nImages: Nikon D100, 550\/6.3 Maksutov, ISO 200, 1\/8s to 1\/2s exposure. From EPO Skybar, Munich.
\nC. Poizat & J.-L. Dighaye <\/p>\n

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Just after sunset, clearings formed west of Munich. In spite of remaining cloud bands, McNaught was conspicuous to the naked eye (about -2 mag, not much fainter than Venus) and gorgeous with binoculars. The brightest comet since Hale-Bopp in 1997, and arguably the loveliest one since West in 1976. Images: Nikon D100, 550\/6.3 Maksutov, ISO […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astrophotos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupeastronomiespa.be\/astrogas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupeastronomiespa.be\/astrogas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupeastronomiespa.be\/astrogas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeastronomiespa.be\/astrogas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeastronomiespa.be\/astrogas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/groupeastronomiespa.be\/astrogas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13354,"href":"https:\/\/groupeastronomiespa.be\/astrogas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8330\/revisions\/13354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupeastronomiespa.be\/astrogas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeastronomiespa.be\/astrogas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeastronomiespa.be\/astrogas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}