RE: [F_minor] OT: Look to the skies!

["Cline, Eric" <Eric.Cline@reichhold.com>]

Thanks Bob. This is really interesting stuff. 

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-----Original Message-----
From: f_minor-bounces@email.rutgers.edu
[mailto:f_minor-bounces@email.rutgers.edu] On Behalf Of Robert Merkin
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 3:52 AM
To: F_MINOR@EMAIL.RUTGERS.EDU
Subject: [F_minor] OT: Look to the skies!

Clear skies permitting, you might be able for the next few days, as it
returns from the Sun, to see the brightest comet of the last 40 years,
McNaught / C/2006 P1, in the half-hour after sunset or the half-hour before
dawn. (Robert McNaught's the Anglo-Australian professional astronomer who
first spotted it in August, so he gets it named for him.) 
Every comet has one last unpredictable secret -- how bright it will really
be, how visible to the naked eye -- and McNaught was a surprise winner.
Don't bother with fancy telescopes -- binoculars will be more useful.
>From Wikipedia:
The comet will remain visible to Southern Hemisphere observers in both the
morning and evening sky, entering the constellation Microscopium on 18
January, but fading rapidly and dropping below 6th magnitude by 09 Feb.
However, observers are encouraged to watch closely, as sungrazing comets
often break up shortly after perihelion and flare dramatically.
Best details and fotos: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/~rmn/C2006P1.htm
Bob Merkin
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