jay@npois.UUCP (Anton Winteroak) (11/25/85)
I saw Halley's Comet Saturday night, using a pair of 11x80 binoculars. As usual it looked like a dim fuzzy spot, superimposed on some dim stars in the constellation Aries. What made it a bit difficult was that it was relatively near a nearly full moon, which drowns out diffuse object. The next time that it should be easy to identify the Comet is on the evening of November 28th, at about 7 to 8 pm, just before the moon rises. The comet will be in the Eastern sky very near a bright star shared by the constellations Aries and Pisces. For more details you should consult the map in the November Sky & Telescope. Remember that the tick marks are midnight GMT, so 7 PM November 28th will be marked as November 29th.