Comet Holmes

[rhino]

Since October 23rd ... this little comet is the new "star" of the sky ...

I just heard about it ... but I guess it is in the northeast sky after midnight ...

So you can see it even without binoculars or a telescope ... no sheet sherlock ;)

I'm gonna look tonight ...

The comet is currently located among the stars of the constellation Perseus, which can be found about halfway up in the northeast part of the sky as darkness falls. Perseus is almost directly overhead by around 2 a.m. local daylight time and is still well up in the northwest sky as dawn begins to break.

Edited November 6, 2007 by rhino

[rhino]

OK, I just saw it ... it was hard to see without binoculars ... but pretty clear with them.... (but I didn't bother to turn off our pole light)

pretty much straight NW, up maybe 40 degrees as of 6:40 pm central

there are clear pinpoint stars, then this big fuzzball, like the moon through a hazy sky, but smaller than the moon, but much bigger than the stars ...

[waysider]

Waaaaay too much light pollution from the city to see anything like that here.

I remember the first time I went to HQ in the early '70s, though, and looked skyward on what was a cloudless night.

I had never seen a sky that was so full of sparkle in my entire life.

It added some sort of self fabricated profoundness to being there.

[dmiller]

Waaaaay too much light pollution from the city to see anything like that here.

I remember the first time I went to HQ in the early '70s, though, and looked skyward on what was a cloudless night.

I had never seen a sky that was so full of sparkle in my entire life.

It added some sort of self fabricated profoundness to being there.

That was because it was so *dark* down below. ;)