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To: Right Wing Professor
Finding it: draw a line between Betelgeuse, the top left, reddish star in Orion, to Rigel (the bright bottom right star). Go further along that line the same distance again. The comet is right there. It's about 2 degrees (the length of Orion's belt) south of 54 Eridani, which is really the only star easily visible to the unaided eye in the region; it's moving north, and by December 12 should be due East of 54 Eridani. By early January it will be much brighter and next to the Pleiades.

Thanks! Now, if we could only do something about these clouds...

49 posted on 12/08/2004 11:16:04 PM PST by Chemist_Geek ("Drill, R&D, and conserve" should be our watchwords! Energy independence for America!)
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To: Chemist_Geek

Dang. I went outside and looked up, but all I could see was the Sears Tower...


53 posted on 12/08/2004 11:52:35 PM PST by EternalVigilance
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