Comet Holmes Amazingly Brightens In A Matter of Hours

Comet Holmes mysteriously exploded in brightness in a matter of hours according to sky-watchers.

Can you see it from your back yard? Yes!

How do I find it? You ask...

It appears somewhat yellowish in color and is very bright. We are looking at it from a suburban setting and it is quite visible. Look straight down to the horizon from a big W of stars "Cassiopeia" and you will see something bright that looks somewhat off color for a star. That's comet Holmes!

If we were to make a star map it would look like this: Holmes is the thing at the bottom circled in red.

As comets have throughout history been believed to portend major earthly events to come, we had to run out to the back yard to have a look ourselves. Keep in mind that the object was invisible to the naked eye a short time ago; it increased in brightness some half a million times in three hours! With a simple, everyday name like Holmes, the comet has to feel like something we already know...like the Holmes' down the street, right? It may well be a harbinger of great changes in human history. The full moon is near perigee and some earthquake predictors think that could mean big shaking ahead. California is burning down and some end-timers think that is well deserved. Keep your eye on the sky for the truth will come to you as a speck of dust on your bottom eyelid. You know what's happening and no one on the Internet can explain it to you. The Apocalypse Times are upon us, do not fear: it's just another day.

We have posted some of the photos we took below; click on the photo itself to have a closer look. Comet Holmes is the brightest dot in the center of the photos. Currently, comet Holmes does not have a tail it just looks like a bright star. According to a site called the Cosmic Mirror:

A most amazing eruption is occurring on comet Holmes which was at 17 mag. at best but on October 24 suddenly began to brighten like crazy: Now (afternoon UTC) it has already reached 3rd magnitude and is easily visible to the naked eye, as reports from Japan indicate: "Perseus does not look 'Perseus' familiar to us due to the bright stellar object now." The comet looks like a bright, yellow star, and only magnification reveals a fuzzy coma around the dusty core. Holmes was discovered in 1892 thanks to a similar outburst, and hope is that the further development will be similar now: the coma should expand over time but stay bright for a week or more. "Following the initial stages of the [1892] outburst, the comet's total magnitude faded only very slowly and it remained visible to the unaided eye for about 3 weeks," advises comet guru John Bortle: "During this interval the coma expanded dramatically (as might be expected), reaching 20'-30' in size before its outer regions began to drop below the sky background." Moreover, there was a second outburst "of almost equal amplitude to the first one, about 75 days following its 1892 November brightening. Thus, I would urge everyone to watch very carefully for a possible repeat of this secondary event about the turn of the year.

"Threatening the world with Famine, Plague and War: To Princes, Death! To Kingdoms, many Crosses; To all Estates, inevitable Losses! To Herdsmen, Rot; to Plowmen, hapless Seasons; To Sailors, Storms, To Cities, Civil Treasons!" De cometis by John Gadbury, London, 1665

Rain, The Meteors Are Coming Down

Over the last two weeks meteors, fireballs, bolide meteorites, and other things have been coming down through the atmosphere like raindrops on a spring day. Is this the deadly rainstorm of chunks from space that many have spoken of as heralding the end times? We may be just nuts here at The Apocalypse Times, but the repetitive stories of fireballs over the last several days have us thinking that maybe we need a tinfoil hat or a special meteor-deflection helmet to keep us safe!

• Peru: a meteor comes down, livestock die, humans get sick in a spate of mass hysteria that explains away the possibility that something might have really happened.
  "scientists seemed to unanimously agree that it was a meteorite that had struck their territory"
• Alaska: fringe journalists report a burning light in the sky that is reported all over the state we bought from Russia....it can't be true can it?
• Finland: Crazy weirdos from Finland report seeing the brightest object in 30 years.
  
• New Jersey: A mystery fireball blows up off the coast making all residents seem nuts.
• Minnesota: Now, way-out residents of Minnesota report a fireball that is accompanied with an imagined loud boom.

So what's going on? It must all be imagined. We're all just crazies worried that a big meteorite is coming to wipe us out. We don't think so... The rainstorm of objects from the sky has started and there is no place to hide. We are riding on planet Earth as it takes us through a part of the the galaxy that is crowded with road hazards that, despite efforts of NASA, we just can't see. Get ready, because a big boom is coming to an area near you.

New Comet Discovery--More Parallels With Mira and the Red Dragon

Interesting coincidences were piling up around a month ago on the date August 15, 2007. At the time, the Internet had been abuzz with speculation about an upcoming date, August 18th, which had been deciphered from a series of crop circles in England. With many already in anticipation of some world-changing event, a homily was given by Pope Benedict filled with references to the "red dragon" of the Book of Revelation and, on the same day, details of an amazing discovery were released by NASA regarding new properties of a known star, Mira, unlike any ever seen before. Interestingly, Mira herself is located in the constellation Cetus (gr, Whale). This constellation has been associated with ancient Mother of the Gods of Babylon, Tiamat. Tiamat is the dragon goddess of chaos who battled the Marduk the god of justice and light.

Once again we are drawn to the constellation Cetus with the discovery of a new comet, "P/2007S1(ZHAO)", named after the Chinese astronomer who recently discovered it. Coincidentally, the newly found comet was discovered in the constellation Cetus. Another reference to the red dragon comes to light: China has often been referred to as such! The constellation Cetus seems to be trying to tell us something.

Cetus is amidst a portion of the sky associated with the water signs of the zodiac: Pisces, Aquarius and Eridanus. Is it another coincidence that we are drawn to this wet portion of the heavens at a time when reports of record glacial meltdowns are going on around the planet? Perhaps forecasts of sea-level rises have been underestimated. Certainly, we have no expectation of what may actually occur when the mass of all that ice is redistributed around the globe.

When you look to the southern sky on one of these autumn nights, look carefully. There may be a sign there....

Update: Pope to give strong words on climate....