LIVE Comet C/2017 K2 IS APPROACHING EARTH

LIVE Comet C/2017 K2 IS APPROACHING EARTH
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From the YouTube blurb:

A huge 11 mile comet will fly by Earth in July and you will be able to see it. . . . Astronomers first spotted the comet in 2017 using the Pan-STARRS survey instrument in Hawaii. At the time, they said it was the farthest active inbound comet they’d yet seen. It was between the orbits of Saturn and Uranus when they first saw it. Now it’s in the inner solar system, with closest approach to Earth on July 14. The comet will be closest to the sun several months later, on December 19, 2022. With a small telescope, you should be able to spot the comet throughout the summer.

Being able to watch this live is very cool. So some telescope somewhere has a digital camera attached to it, and the camera is attached to the internet so we're getting this right from the zillion dollar source. Not only that, if this show goes on 24 hours a day, they must have three or four telescopes devoted to this project scattered around the globe. It's just kind of amazing that it actually works.

Cell Phone Picture of TV Screen

This video popped up on the TV this evening. It was heavily pixelated on the TV (above photo). It's much smoother on the computer monitor. I suppose it's due to the technology. The computer monitor is a typical flat scrteen, the TV is a plasma set that is at least ten, maybe 20 years old. 

Having this video just pop up like that was also pretty cool. It didn't actually pop up, it was just the first video of the bunch that show up when you open the YouTube page. I guess I can thank Google's tracking algorithm for suggesting it to me. I haven't heard about it anywhere else.

Update next day added photo of TV screen.