Posted on Jul 14, 2020
APOD: 2020 July 14 - Comet NEOWISE over Stonehenge
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Spinal Tap - Stonehenge, funniest clip ever.
Hilarious scene from a top film. If it can go wrong it will.
Thank you my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for Tuesday, July 14, 2020 entitled "Comet NEOWISE over Stonehenge."
NEOWISE seems to dominate APOD almost as much as COVID-19 dominated mainstream media coverage :-)
In 1963 I spent time in England with my family. I remember climbing on the stones at Stonehenge on a misty day and we purchased some food and drink from a silver-trailer in the parking lot - earlier version of a roach coach :-)
The next time I saw Stonehenge in 1982 the stones were cordoned off so you could no longer climb on them :-)
Image: Comet NEOWISE over Stonehenge - Image Credit & Copyright: Declan Deval
APOD background
"Explanation: Have you ever seen a comet? Tonight -- and likely the next few nights -- should be a good chance. Go outside just at sunset and look to your northwest. The lower your horizon, the better. Binoculars may help, but if your sky is cloudless and dark, all you should need is your unaided eyes and patience. As the Sun sets, the sky will darken, and there will be an unusual faint streak pointing diagonally near the horizon. That is Comet NEOWISE. It is a 5-kilometer-wide evaporating dirty iceberg visiting from -- and returning to -- the outer Solar System. As the Earth turns, the comet will soon set, so you might want to take a picture. In the featured image, Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) was captured two mornings ago rising over Stonehenge in the UK. Discovered with the NASA satellite NEOWISE toward the end of March, Comet NEOWISE has surprised many by surviving its closest approach to the Sun, brightening dramatically, and developing impressive (blue) ion and (white) dust tails."
Spinal Tap - Stonehenge, humorous.
https://youtu.be/zg5Ovdu6bOE?t=57
FYI MSgt Robert "Rock" Aldi SGT Mark Anderson SGT Denny Espinosa SPC Margaret Higgins SPC Nancy Greene Sgt John H. Lt Col Charlie Brown SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen CW5 Jack Cardwell Alan K. Maj Marty Hogan TSgt David L. TSgt Joe C. SMSgt Lawrence McCarter PO1 Robert George PO3 (Join to see) PO2 (Join to see) COL Mikel J. Burroughs
NEOWISE seems to dominate APOD almost as much as COVID-19 dominated mainstream media coverage :-)
In 1963 I spent time in England with my family. I remember climbing on the stones at Stonehenge on a misty day and we purchased some food and drink from a silver-trailer in the parking lot - earlier version of a roach coach :-)
The next time I saw Stonehenge in 1982 the stones were cordoned off so you could no longer climb on them :-)
Image: Comet NEOWISE over Stonehenge - Image Credit & Copyright: Declan Deval
APOD background
"Explanation: Have you ever seen a comet? Tonight -- and likely the next few nights -- should be a good chance. Go outside just at sunset and look to your northwest. The lower your horizon, the better. Binoculars may help, but if your sky is cloudless and dark, all you should need is your unaided eyes and patience. As the Sun sets, the sky will darken, and there will be an unusual faint streak pointing diagonally near the horizon. That is Comet NEOWISE. It is a 5-kilometer-wide evaporating dirty iceberg visiting from -- and returning to -- the outer Solar System. As the Earth turns, the comet will soon set, so you might want to take a picture. In the featured image, Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) was captured two mornings ago rising over Stonehenge in the UK. Discovered with the NASA satellite NEOWISE toward the end of March, Comet NEOWISE has surprised many by surviving its closest approach to the Sun, brightening dramatically, and developing impressive (blue) ion and (white) dust tails."
Spinal Tap - Stonehenge, humorous.
https://youtu.be/zg5Ovdu6bOE?t=57
FYI MSgt Robert "Rock" Aldi SGT Mark Anderson SGT Denny Espinosa SPC Margaret Higgins SPC Nancy Greene Sgt John H. Lt Col Charlie Brown SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen CW5 Jack Cardwell Alan K. Maj Marty Hogan TSgt David L. TSgt Joe C. SMSgt Lawrence McCarter PO1 Robert George PO3 (Join to see) PO2 (Join to see) COL Mikel J. Burroughs
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LTC Stephen F.
Spinal Tap Live At Glastonbury 2009 - "Stonehenge"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ec1WaFrK8E
FYI PO1 William "Chip" Nagel Capt Dwayne Conyers CWO3 Dennis M. SFC William Farrell SGT (Join to see)SGT Jim Arnold Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. MSG (Join to see) SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL LTC Greg Henning SGT Gregory Lawritson SFC (Join to see) Maj Robert Thornton Col Carl WhickerSGT Robert R.CPT Tommy CurtisSP5 Jeannie CarleSPC Chris Bayner-Cwik TSgt David L.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ec1WaFrK8E
FYI PO1 William "Chip" Nagel Capt Dwayne Conyers CWO3 Dennis M. SFC William Farrell SGT (Join to see)SGT Jim Arnold Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. MSG (Join to see) SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL LTC Greg Henning SGT Gregory Lawritson SFC (Join to see) Maj Robert Thornton Col Carl WhickerSGT Robert R.CPT Tommy CurtisSP5 Jeannie CarleSPC Chris Bayner-Cwik TSgt David L.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
I've seen it from 2000 feet and half a mile away, they wouldn't let us overfly it.
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