Talk:Comet Bennett

This was the most spectacular celestial body I have ever seen. I was camping in Joshua Tree National Monument and was greatly moved by Bennett's Comet. It was big bright and spectacular to the naked eye with a tail as long as two full moons. You could even see it for an hour after sunrise in the morning sky!

Observatiom
My Grandfather woke me up one clear crisp night in Karamea,New Zealand sometime in the year 1970. I was eight years old and what i was about to see changed my life and remains etched on my memory forever. A beautiful blue and silver comet totally dominating the night sky that was already familiar to me at that young age. This object commanded a pressence of God-like proportions. A tail as long as 3 full moons and a nucleus as bright as any star that night. Every comet since has never been as dominant or elegant as Comet Bennet was that night. I only hope to observe another comet equally as bright and classically comet-like as I viewed that special night.

Mariner 6 and "comet 1969-B"
Does anyone know if this Comet Bennett is the same as "comet 1969-B," a post-Mars imaging target of Mariner 6, as mentioned here: https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1969-014A ? If so, is that fact worth mentioning in the article? JoJo Anthrax (talk) 19:07, 18 March 2017 (UTC)


 * It isn't. Comet Bennett was then known as 1969i or 1970II. Not sure if comet 1969-B is comet 1969b Kohoutek (which isn't the famous one) or the periodic comet 1969 II. C messier (talk) 20:34, 12 February 2023 (UTC)

Original image
I have an original image of this comet, taken by me, when I was 14 years old. It was my first - and now only surviving astrophoto. If I can get the negative professionally scanned I will post it. Sadly, the negative is in poor condition, with many scratches, but the comet image is intact. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:8003:E48C:E601:E8B8:45BD:204D:E2FF (talk) 14:36, 19 May 2022 (UTC)


 * It would be a welcomed addition in Commons, the image repository of Wikipedia. C messier (talk) 20:35, 12 February 2023 (UTC)