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 > > --- > > Tom Polakis > Tempe, AZ > Arizona Sky Pages > http://www.psiaz.com/polakis/ > -- > This message is from the AZ-Observing mailing list. See this message's > header if you want info about unsubscribing or the list's archive. > > This is a discussion list. Please send personal inquiries directly to > the message author. In other words, do not use "reply" for personal > messages. Thanks. -- Andrew Cooper Tucson, AZ mailto:acooper@xxxxxxxxx http://whitethorn.house.home.att.net -- This message is from the AZ-Observing mailing list. See this message's header if you want info about unsubscribing or the list's archive. This is a discussion list. Please send personal inquiries directly to the message author. In other words, do not use "reply" for personal messages. Thanks.