Ale
April 12, 2006, 12:21pm
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I´ve heard that comet has some potential for a good show this year, but I couldn´t find the coordinates or at least the constellation where it will be (or even if it will be visible from my lattitude).
Even backyard astronomers will be able to take pictures as the mini-comets file through the constellations Cygnus and Pegasus on May 12, 13 and 14.
Ironically, despite being so close, these comets will not be very bright. The largest fragments are expected to glow like 3rd or 4th magnitude stars, which are only dimly visible to the unaided eye.
(from here )The “mini-comets” are the fragments that comprise the remains of Schwassmann-Wachmann 3.
The original NASA news release links to some pictures of where to look .
I’m not sure abut latitude, though.
Would it help to just jump up and down in the backyard yelling:"SCHWASSMANN-WACHMANN! SCHWASSMANN-WACHMANN! SCHWASSMANN-WACHMANN!" ?
(Probably not, but it’d be a hell of a lot of fun.)
Ale
April 12, 2006, 1:01pm
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Would it help to just jump up and down in the backyard yelling:"SCHWASSMANN-WACHMANN! SCHWASSMANN-WACHMANN! SCHWASSMANN-WACHMANN!" ?
(Probably not, but it’d be a hell of a lot of fun.)
No way, the neighbours thing I´m bonkers already, I don´t want to give them more reasons.
Cygnus?, I don´t think I can see that one from here, I´ll have to check the charts.
Squink
April 12, 2006, 1:49pm
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April 11: Update on Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 3
Two fragments of the disintegrating comet are now visible in small scopes, a third is in reach of larger amateur scopes
Ale:
No way, the neighbours thing I´m bonkers already, I don´t want to give them more reasons.
Cygnus?, I don´t think I can see that one from here, I´ll have to check the charts.
I think you can see it, but it’ll be low in your northern sky.
Does anyone remember the very bright comet that appeared in the Northern Hemisphere around 1995 or 1996? It wasn’t bright enough to be seen amidts the lights of L.A., but we did see it out in Malibu. Quite marvelous, especially after Halley’s Comet being such a dud in 1986.
cher3
April 12, 2006, 5:17pm
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Spectre of Pithecanthropus:
I think you can see it, but it’ll be low in your northern sky.
Does anyone remember the very bright comet that appeared in the Northern Hemisphere around 1995 or 1996? It wasn’t bright enough to be seen amidts the lights of L.A., but we did see it out in Malibu. Quite marvelous, especially after Halley’s Comet being such a dud in 1986.
Hale-Bop? http://www.roland-harder.de/natur/hale-bop.jpg
We we in rural Western PA at the time and got some very good looks at it.
Hey. You live in Uruguay. Yell in a hoarse piercing tone in a correct German accent und zere vill be no qvestions.
