fireflies and Neowise

[asakiyume]

The fireflies are for some reason guarding our roof, and I'm grateful for the company at the very least.

I could see Neowise from my driveway today, brightest of the three days I've seen it, seeming to dive for the horizon headfirst--be careful! Do you know how to swim? Bright and cold (though the air is so warm). Maybe the fireflies are lifeguards for this comet--but it only *looks* like it's diving for the horizon--luckily for us, he remains swimming in the solar eddies out beyond our atmosphere.

Hmmm. It wasn't going quite so straight down. Its long hair was streaming a little to the right.

Comments

[sovay]

I could see Neowise from my driveway today, brightest of the three days I've seen it, seeming to dive for the horizon headfirst--be careful!

Oh, wonderful. I have yet to see it. We have too much light pollution and too many roofs.

[asakiyume]

If you can make it out to your parents' in the next couple of nights, I bet you could see it.

[sonia]

What a loving and lovely depiction!

[asakiyume]

Thank you! I'm enjoying the company of this guest who won't stop by again anytime soon...

[rimturse]

Glad you got to see it! :)

[asakiyume]

I'm trying to see it enough to last me a lifetime--who knows when I'll next see a comet, if ever?

[rimturse]

Well, not Neowise, that's for sure. :)

I still remember seeing Halley's comet, but I probably won't be around to see it when it comes around next time.

[cmcmck]

Nice! :o)

Talking of Neowise,see my latest!

[asakiyume]

I'll hop over next!

[mallorys_camera]

That is a lovely piece of artwork.

[asakiyume]

I'm a bit embarrassed: it's done using the mouse and the "draw" function of MS Word, so it's muy muy básico, but it gets the point across.

[amaebi]

Oh, beautiful.

Thank you.

[asakiyume]

I love Comet Neowise <3

[wayfaringwordhack]

I hope I can see it before it is no longer in our skies. I am just too wiped out to stay up late, and now we have cloudy skies in our forecast for perhaps the next week. >.<

In any case, I am glad I got you see YOUR depiction. :D

[asakiyume]

It's much paler than I drew it: if you're looking with your bare eyes, the tail is more visible if you're only looking with your peripheral vision, but I swear, then you can see it streaming. And with binoculars you can really see it like this!

*fingers crossed that the weather clears*

[pameladean]

I want to read the book that that is the cover of.

I don't think I'm going to be able to see the comet. I was out two nights ago with a good view of the right spot and good binoculars, but northwest from our house is all of downtown Minneapolis and a bunch of suburbs, and I think there was just too much light pollution. There was also some haziness on the horizon, so I'll certainly check again tonight, if it clears up (last night was cloudy) and the night after.

But I'm glad to have other people's photos and art to look at in default of the actual object. I have to say, Hale-Bopp was way better behaved, showing up nightly for weeks between the branches of a mature elm that we ever after, until it was cut down in its honorable old age when it became hollow, called the Cometary Elm.

P.

[asakiyume]

Hale-Bopp was adorable--I loved it too.

[pameladean]

That is just the right word. We were so sad when it left.
P.

[wayfaringwordhack]

We got to see it! And guess what!? A tiny green glow of a glow worm* in the grass to accompany us and say, "Hey, asakiyume, saw this too!"

* They are very rare here, which is why I get to take all kinds of poetical liberties with the sighting. :D

[asakiyume]

I've never seen a glow worm--I bet they're magical.