[AZ-Observing] Re: Two Comets In Morning Sky



Two bright comets and two dim (~10mag ) comets for a total of four
telescopic comets in the morning sky in when new moon next rolls around.
 Ikeya-Zhang(4? Cas), Snyder-Murakami(~10 Lyr), WM1 LINEAR (~10 Aql),
Ustonomia(6? And), I plan on comet hunting at least one morning with a
CCD, have to see how many I can bag.

Shhhhhh!  be wery wery qwuiet, we're hunting comets...

Andrew


Tom Polakis wrote:
> 
> This is probably of more interest to photographers than anybody, but there
> will be a rare opportunity to see two naked-eye comets within 30 degrees of
> each other next month.  In mid-April, Comet Ikeya-Zhang should be hanging
> in there around magnitude 4 and Comet Utsunomiya will have hopefully
> brightened to magnitude 6.  From Arizona, the latter is less than 10
> degrees above the eastern horizon at astronomical twilight.  I have posted
> a four-panel figure at:
> 
> http://www.psiaz.com/polakis/comets/comets_0402.jpg
> 
> Tom
> 
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