31 Mar
2013
31 Mar
'13
6:13 a.m.
For those who may not know already Pan-STARRS is not only an evening comet but can be seen in the morning as well. I popped up on my roof a few minutes ago and had a look to the NE with 10x50s and spotted it right away. It looked a lot better than it did last evening being that it's higher in the sky. Currently rising over a zero degree horizon at 0500, 7 degrees up by the end of astronomical dark (0545) and 11 degrees up by the end of nautical dark (0615). Well, it's getting late. I need to shut down my observatory and get into that box of dirt I had shipped over from Transylvania before the Sun finds me. Gute Nacht, patrick