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John McCallum Send message Joined: 5 Dec 04 Posts: 877 Credit: 599,458 RAC: 8 |
something for all the star gazers out there aparently this comet is thought to be a brand new one on it's first orbit of the sun so it is outgassing Cyanogen and Diatomic carbon that glow Green in the intense sunlight in space.Happy hunting. Oh and you will need a telescope or binocculars to see it. Old enough to know better(but)still young enough not to care |
Clyde C. Phillips, III Send message Joined: 2 Aug 00 Posts: 1851 Credit: 5,955,047 RAC: 0 |
Looks pretty. |
Allie in Vancouver Send message Joined: 16 Mar 07 Posts: 3949 Credit: 1,604,668 RAC: 0 |
Also, according to the stats, a one-time visitor. It’s trip around the Sun will give it enough deltaV to leave the solar system. Hi, and good-by, little green comet. :o) Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. Albert Einstein |
Michael Watson Send message Joined: 7 Feb 08 Posts: 1383 Credit: 2,098,506 RAC: 5 |
Saw this comet a few days ago with binoculars. It will be very near Saturn on the early morning of the 24th. This also marks the time of comet Lulin's closest approach to Earth. Saturn is the bright morning star, roughly midway on a line between Spica, in Virgo and Regulus, in Leo. Saturn actually looks like a bright extra star in Leo, slightly below the crouching lion. Look well up above the southern horizon very early on the morning of the 24th. Somewhat later, look to the Southwest. Binoculars and/or a dark sky location are definite plusses in seeing the comet. Michael |
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