A double tailed comet named Lulin will be visible through binoculars this week if you know when and where to look. If you look east-southeast in the sky at 9pm the comet should be very close to Saturn. It will follow a path between Saturn and the bright star, Regulus in the constellation Leo from February 23-27. Here is a link to Sky And Telescope .com that can give you more details. I plan to search for it tonight.
From what I heard on NPR, the comet was discovered by a 19 year old student in China. The comet is unusual in that it has a tail at both ends. It is also traveling around the sun in a direction opposite that of the planets in our solar system.
From what I heard on NPR, the comet was discovered by a 19 year old student in China. The comet is unusual in that it has a tail at both ends. It is also traveling around the sun in a direction opposite that of the planets in our solar system.
8 comments:
Cool!!!
We'll be looking!
I will be looking too!
The skies turned cloudy here in CT.-I'll try again Tuesday Night.
Will have to look for this Comet!
Very cool!!
Definitely going to be looking for this. Thanks for the info!
Thanks for the tip, Larry! I hadn't heard about it until now.
I was able to find it with binoculars-It was actually better viewed at 10 pm because of darker skies. It looked like a fuzzy snowball.The darker the skies in you area-the better the view you'll have. My spotting scope was good eough for picking up slight shape of rings on Saturn but no good for the comet.-Binoculars worked better.
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