Sky and Telescope - This week's sky at a glance.
Check the link. There are good charts for using the Moon to locate Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Saturn as the Moon moves across the sky from evening to evening.
Posted on 05/14/2004 5:05:13 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
Maybe they'll impact in Provicetown MA.
You are a cutie!
Anybody seen either of these lately? They aren't visible here at all.
Do you know what general direction we should look in?
Try southwest.
Um, up?
(I'm sorry, I just couldn't pass that one by!)
:)
See here.
Don't bother unless you have a scope.
But a scope really shouldn't be needed. If someone can't find NEAT with binoculars they probably can't find it with a telescope either.
West, around 30 degrees elevation, 10 PM. I've seen the comet the last four nights with binoculars from a not particularly dark site -- urban but trees blocking street lights. Probably visible naked-eye in a dark area.
For directions see the Sky and Telescope map. Use Venus as a starting point to find bright stars if you don't know them. Imagine a vertical line through Procyon, and a line to the left through Castor and Pollux. The comet is a bit above the intersection of the lines.
http://skyandtelescope.com/observing/ataglance/article_110_1.asp
The Sac Bee published a day-by-day plot of the comet's position but with no background stars or planets. Their mapping skills are on a par with the wisdom of their editorials.
Sky and Telescope - This week's sky at a glance.
Check the link. There are good charts for using the Moon to locate Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Saturn as the Moon moves across the sky from evening to evening.
Ive got some cool footage of halle bop recorded with nightvision with a shooting star bisecting its tail
Thanks for the chart.
Light pollution is bad enough around here, but we have overcast skys everytime there is a celestial event here as well!
I need to get back to the desert
alas, I see that Sky and Telescope's server is now overloaded.
How comet NEAT might appear in the night sky in mid-May, 2004, as seen at 10 p.m. from mid-northern latitudes.
Space.com - Comet NEAT Visible in Evening Sky.
Anyone remember this thread?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1128284/posts?page=142
"He even said that something significant would be revealed on April 16th that would put things into motion."
Tomorrow!
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