Picture of the Day: Come-t Again? (2020)
Grainy Comet picture - best I could do
2020 was a weird year for all of us. Moreover it was a time when a book I read as an impressionable child warned of comets and them being harbingers of doom, woe and U2 albums.
Load of old toss
The book, Comet Catastrophe by Roger Sutherland (available from Amazon here), talks about how whenever theres a comet, human society goes through a dramatic change, or theres some sort of disaster or bullshit. Of course, there are comets all the time, just we can't always see them and you could say the same applies to when it rains like "It was raining in Solihull when that earthquake happened in far off land OMG" or some crap.
If you squint and fuck about with filters and zoom - you might be able to spot it
So having survived Halle Bop in the 90s and Halley's comet in the 1980's I thought I'd chuck another comet under my belt - the arrival of which no doubt heralded the global pandemic. Natch.
Despite several failed attempts prior to today's picture - not enough horizon, too much light pollution, clouds and lockdown-curfews - in the end, the best photo of the comet I was able to take was from round the back of the house. So here it is, in all it's glory - thanks to my old Google Pixel 4 which had a rather good camera but a shoddy batterylife. And Android.
The non-zoomed in picture from which today's picture is zoomed in from.