Bright comet

Where is the best place to find the current position and magnitude of
the bright comet mentioned in the newspapers?

Abdul

"Abdul" wrote in message
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: Where is the best place to find the current position and magnitude of
: the bright comet mentioned in the newspapers?
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: Abdul

Since the Earth is turning it doesn't really matter much as
long as you are in the northern hemisphere and can see Perseus.

Abdul wrote:
Where is the best place to find the current position and magnitude of
the bright comet mentioned in the newspapers?

Abdul

Go to:

http://www.heavens-above.com/

Regards,
John.

In uk.sci.astronomy message , Fri, 16
Nov 2007 18:41:11, John posted:
Abdul wrote:
Where is the best place to find the current position and magnitude of
the bright comet mentioned in the newspapers?

Go to:
http://www.heavens-above.com/

Link "sky map" at http://spaceweather.com/ may be better.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17P/Holmes is also good.

If one wants to *see* the thing, the weather here is not all that co-
operative (there's evidence to suggest that it's generally better a few
kilometres to the South).

Currently Holmes is close to Mirfak; it was just about visible about 3
hours ago here.

From the UK, it's currently close to straight up at midnight.

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The comet has dimed and become very fuzzy, no detail at all,
in the last week. But try it. Its large!



Abdul wrote:

Where is the best place to find the current position and magnitude of
the bright comet mentioned in the newspapers?

Abdul