Easy naked-eye target tonight, and I agree, well worth a peek in binocs! Thanks for the heads-up Daniel. --- daniel turner <outwest112@yahoo.com> wrote:
Once again a bright comet is in the sky and I'm reading email observing reports from midtown Manhattan and nothing from my friends in Utah. This comet is an even bigger deal than comet Mcnaught was earlier this year. This is a Northern hemisphere, naked eye, middle of the city, easily visible comet. 20 years from now you are going to want to tell people that you saw this thing.
It's up and visable from down town Salt lake city from 6:00pm to 6:00am. If you are up at all during those hours, look for the "W" of Cassiopea and to the east of that the bright star Cappela. Half way between will be the dimmer star alpha Perseus. Off to the side of that will be this wierd fuzzy thing. That should send you back into the house for a pair of binoculars or a grab-and-go telescope.
Weatherwise the weekend curse was lifted this last two days and we were blessed with "clear" skies. The next three days are forecast to be "mostly clear". Come Thursday we will have "partly cloudy" and friday will be "chance of rain", saturday will be "chance of snow". Do you see the pattern here? you gotta go see this thing within the next three nights or plan on missing it.
It is impossible to overhype this astronomical event. You just gotta see this thing before it is gone forever.
DT
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