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To: Jack Hydrazine
Tried to find it on a rare cloudless night, but the moon was too bright.

And, I am hopeless with constellation spotting. I check on a sky chart, go out and cannot find a damn thing that looks like the chart.

2 posted on 01/01/2015 7:04:43 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: doorgunner69

You can’t miss Orion. Three bright stars in a straight line are at the center of the constellation (the belt). The eye is drawn to it. With a pair of binoculars you can make out the Orion nebula just below the belt.


4 posted on 01/01/2015 7:10:13 PM PST by Straight Vermonter (Postin)
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To: doorgunner69
Go out after nine or ten p.m. and use this sky chart. If you can find Orion as it rises in the east you are quite close! Right now the comet is in the constellation of Lepus the rabbit which sits just a little bit below Orion (to the right and a little bit closer to the horizon).


5 posted on 01/01/2015 7:14:15 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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