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#1 2006-10-13 06:00:07

Palomar
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Re: Comet Swan

Tonight [Oct. 13] is a good night to find Comet Swan. The handle of the Big Dipper curves toward it, pointing the way. Although the comet is too dim to see with the unaided eye, it is an easy target for amateur telescopes, glowing emerald green against the black night sky.

Will take my 'scope out tonight.  The Big Dipper's handle is easily seen from our back yard.

Sky map

Cool; nearly exactly halfway between last Dipper handle star and Arcturus. 

Photo; lovely green "snowball"

All that courtesy spaceweather.com

--Cindy


We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

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