Loc:Southampton, UK Posted30 October 2023 - 07:19 PM You mean the bent dinosaur-burnt cheese-awful foot-cobbler's auntie comet? Isnt that near the psychologist nebula, embedded in the asterism of the floating egg? I so hate these lame names for celestial objects. Give it a break and hav...
Comets Calendar for December 2021 Dec 02-03 – C/2021 A1 (Leonard) passes ~0.1 deg of 6th mag globular cluster M3 Dec 02 – 430P/Scotti at perihelion (q = 1.55 au, 5.5-year orbit, V ~ 17, 2nd observed return, discovered in 2011, missed at 2016 return) Dec 04 – New Moon Dec ...
I have just bagged the rather faint comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) with my C8 and Nagler 22 mm EP. It shows up as a faint little blob (mag 12.8 or so) in Hercules. I tried a few days ago, but conditions weren't good enough. Tonight the sky was more transparent, although it still was...