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Originally Posted by AK
Well c'mon, with a visual magnitude of 28.2, do you really expect it to look like the Giotto images? :-?
It said that makes it the faintest comet ever detected. Anyone have any idea what the dimmest (identifiable) object ever photographed is? It can't be much higher in magnitude than that, can it?
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They said that at greatest distance from the Sun (in what, over fifteen years from now?), it'll only be one magnitude less bright, and it'll still be easily detectable.
Surely there's a big comet out there that's been gone a longer time that they know where to find it. To break the record, of course.
