Mark Bracewell wrote:
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> >>06:10 4 July 2005 UT
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> So it looks to me to be about 24 degrees above the san jose horizon, WSW. 10 pm isn't terribly dark in july, is it?
That 6:10 UT translates to 11:10 PDT. Is your 24 deg elevation for 10
PST or PDT? I don't know the position of the comet.
For 10:10 standard time, the sun is 23 degrees down.
For 10:10 summer time, the sun is 16 degrees down.
So it's adequately dark in either case.
-- Jim Van Nuland, San Jose (California) Astronomical Association <a href="http://www.svpal.org/~jvn/ ">JVN's web site</a>Received on Fri Mar 25 16:32:13 2005