[AZ-Observing] Re: Aldebaran-Venus conjunction
- From: Tom Polakis <tpolakis@xxxxxxx>
- To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:33:16
At 09:08 PM 6/29/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>For early risers, the bright star Aldebaran will appear less than 1 1/2
degrees to the lower right or right of Venus, low in the east-northeast
before sunrise, now through July 8. Given that sunrise these days is about
5:20, the time to look is about 4:30 ... pretty darn early!
Thanks, Joe. If you're really going to get up that early, you might as
well get up at 3:45 to look at yet another comet. Comet C/2004 H6 SWAN is
about 15 degrees above the southeast horizon at morning astronomical
twilight. Pan 45 degrees to the right of the Pleiades to find it. Here's
the ephemeris:
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/Ephemerides/Comets/2004H6_1.html
...which shows it at magnitude 8.0. Recent reports have it about a half
magnitude brighter than that.
Tom
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