[Atlas Sneezed]

"On the night of Saturday, August 17th, 2002 NY40 should reach magnitude 9.3"

Note that this is much dimmer than (less than 1/10) the faintest stars that can be seen in the darkest moonless skies away from city lights (ordinance or not).

This requires knowledge of where to look, and an appreciation for another dim dot among the others.

Conceptually interesting, but not visually.

[Joe Hadenuf]

I am going to cheat, and program the coordinance into my computerized Schmidt Cassegrain telescope and let it's on board computer find it for me. It should only take a couple of button pushes.

But you are correct. Someone that doesn't know the sky could have much difficulty.