Comet 8P Tuttle - December 16th 2007

Comet 8P Tuttle - December 16th 2007

Distance 0.3948 AU (59.1 million km) - magnitude 13.1

Méchain discovered this comet in the evening sky near Omicron Piscium
in January 1790. Several very famous observers, including Charles
Messier and William Herschel, observed the comet over the next three
weeks. 2007/2008 will be a good apparition for this comet and on
January 2nd 2008 it will be within 0.25 AU of Earth. The comet should
then be an easy binocular object.

http://www.martin-nicholson.info/tuttle/tuttle.htm
Martin Nicholson, Daventry, England.
http://www.martin-nicholson.info/1/1a.htm
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