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New Comet Now Visible to Naked Eye
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| December 8, 2004
| Robert Roy Rritt
Posted on 12/08/2004 8:40:35 PM PST by Right Wing Professor
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Worth a look if you're somewhere with a dark sky. I found it with non-dark adapted eyes in less than 5 minutes wtih a pair of 9 X 63 binoculars. I
think you could see it with unaided eyes in a very dark sky if you dark-adapted for 1/2 hour. It looked brighter to me than Sky and Telescope's prediction; in a few days it should be a fairly easy naked eye object. I had it at -22 degres south, 4h 42 R.A. this evening at 9;30 CDT.
Finding it: draw a line between Betelgeuse, the top left, reddish star in Orion, to Rigel (the bright bottom right star). Go further along that line the same distance again. The comet is right there. It's about 2 degrees (the length of Orion's belt) south of 54 Eridani, which is really the only star easily visible to the unaided eye in the region; it's moving north, and by December 12 should be due East of 54 Eridani. By early January it will be much brighter and next to the Pleiades.
To: Right Wing Professor
There was a comet a few years ago that went right over the north star.It was like the night sky itself was a giant clock and the comet was its hour hand. Pretty neat.
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posted on
12/08/2004 8:49:26 PM PST
by
Nateman
(The enemies of reason are allies of evil.)
To: RadioAstronomer; edwin hubble; longshadow
Tsk! Letting the amateurs beat you guys at your own game :-).
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posted on
12/08/2004 8:50:28 PM PST
by
RightWingAtheist
(Marxism-the creationism of the left)
To: Right Wing Professor
It was spotted by naked-eye observers for the first time about three weeks ago . . . Amazing naked-eye observers can still make discoveries like this.
To: Right Wing Professor
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posted on
12/08/2004 8:52:32 PM PST
by
AntiGuv
(™)
To: msdrby
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posted on
12/08/2004 8:53:12 PM PST
by
Professional Engineer
(Pulled up behind 'em, pulled out my pistol, and blew 'em away. ~ Chuck Brodsky, minstrel)
To: LibWhacker
Amazing naked-eye observers can still make discoveries like this.Amazing what good eyes some people have. I know where it is, but I haven't picked it up yet without binocs, even with averted vision.
To: Right Wing Professor
All I see is the moon and a bunch of dots.
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posted on
12/08/2004 8:58:25 PM PST
by
REDWOOD99
To: Right Wing Professor
Are you way out in the boonies? Can't see anything around here.
To: RandallFlagg
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posted on
12/08/2004 9:00:11 PM PST
by
CurlyBill
(Mark Levin for the Supreme Court!)
To: REDWOOD99
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posted on
12/08/2004 9:02:15 PM PST
by
Judith Anne
(Thank you St. Jude for favors granted.)
To: Right Wing Professor
Could you put that into laymans (farm people) terms please?
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posted on
12/08/2004 9:02:47 PM PST
by
ChefKeith
(Life is GREAT with CoCo..........NASCAR...everything else is just a game!(Except War & Love))
To: RightWingAtheist
Heh, it's the amateurs that have the time and telescopes to find these things (aside from the LINEAR comets). Us pros get too caught up in other things.
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posted on
12/08/2004 9:02:57 PM PST
by
MikeD
(Columnated ruins domino...)
To: Right Wing Professor
This was described at space.com as the estimated position on January 5th, 8pm local time, at the northern mid-latitudes.
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posted on
12/08/2004 9:03:17 PM PST
by
alancarp
(When does it cease to be "Freedom of the Press" and become outright SEDITION?)
To: Right Wing Professor
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posted on
12/08/2004 9:05:02 PM PST
by
two23
To: Right Wing Professor; Howlin; Molly Pitcher; MozartLover; Miss Marple; lepton; Species8472; ...
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posted on
12/08/2004 9:05:56 PM PST
by
kayak
(Merry CHRISTmas!)
To: kayak
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posted on
12/08/2004 9:09:02 PM PST
by
txhurl
To: kayak; Brad's Gramma; Carolinamom; TC Rider; jern
Oh, here we go, back outside!
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posted on
12/08/2004 9:09:37 PM PST
by
Howlin
(W, Still the President)
To: LibWhacker
Are you way out in the boonies Rural Nebraska. As boonie as it gets. You might need to wait a couple of weeks to see it in the city.
To: Howlin
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I have to get up in the morning!
Oh well. BRB! :) Thanks for the ping!
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posted on
12/08/2004 9:11:54 PM PST
by
Brad’s Gramma
(Proud Patriots dot com! Check it out!!!)
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