[AZ-Observing] Comet Machholz Tail Passes Over Pleiades Friday Night
- From: "Tom Polakis" <tpolakis@xxxxxxx>
- To: AZ-Observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 09:43:20 -0700
Here is a very good image by Johannes Schedler that shows the Pleiades
with the comet:
http://panther-observatory.com/temp/M45_Mach_30.jpg
Taking a look at the position angle of the tail and using this finder
chart...
http://encke.jpl.nasa.gov/images/04Q2/q2-3.gif
...it looks like the Pleiades will be shining through the tail of the
comet during a window between January 7.5 through 8.1 UT. The latter end
of that window corresponds to the end of twilight here in Arizona, when
the comet is well up in the east. That would be a spectacular image. I
hope somebody captures it.
At this point, it would probably be best not to bring up the sore subject
of the weather forecast for Friday night.
Tom
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