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Post by fondofchips on Aug 8, 2017 8:16:54 GMT
C/2017 O1 is a new discovery on July 19 by the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASASSN) program. This program is designed to discover supernovae. This is its first comet discovery. The preliminary orbit suggests that perihelion will be in mid October, at which time the comet will pass within 0.7 AU of the earth. Maximum brightness may be around magnitude 7 at that time. More info on its location, (link below) moves into Taurus by the end of the month: - cometchasing.skyhound.com/Apparently visible through binoculars, well if that is the case then we will have a better idea where to point our telescopes, my experience is that comets are notoriously difficult to get into view. It is fairly low at the moment so light pollution won't help either. Makes it all worthwhile though when you eventually get it in view. I try to wait until the comet is near an easily recognisable object, finding a dim one in a large dark patch is more difficult. It took me ages to get one into view when I had the 10" reflector, then I bumped the scope. No one around in the early hours to hear my colourful language, we have all been there!
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Post by Dragon Man on Aug 8, 2017 15:27:27 GMT
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Post by Rick in NWArk on Aug 9, 2017 21:31:28 GMT
Yes, for me Comets are hit or miss. I'd live to find this one in a wide-field view -- if it gets high enough.
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