COMET LOVEJOY BRIGHTENS: Its official. Comet Lovejoy (C/2014 Q2) - TopicsExpress



          

COMET LOVEJOY BRIGHTENS: Its official. Comet Lovejoy (C/2014 Q2) is now a naked-eye object. Science journalist and longtime comet watcher Mariano Ribas of the Planetario de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, reports that as of last night Comet Lovejoy has reached magnitude 5.0, just above the threshold for human visibility from dark-sky sites. Even in the light polluted sky, I was able to see the comet through 10x50 binoculars and capture it with my digital camera here in Atwater, California just after midnight. I found it using this star map posted below. Looking at the behaviour of this comet over the past month, I think that it will brighten to magnitude 4.5 or even 4.0 in the first week of 2015. If so, the show has just begun. Stay tuned for updates.
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 11:07:01 +0000

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