[Chaos-l] A New Comet

[Robert Nielsen]

So ... I plotted the path of Comet Lukin for the next month or so ... 
and from mid- to late-February, it is found in Virgo, moving into Leo.   
In the middle of the month, the full moon is out.   Sounds like end of 
the month may be better ... and Leo (and Saturn) are up at around 10 
PM.  So that sounds like the best time to take a look.

Robert

Stewart-Taylor, Jon wrote:
> According to an ephemeris published at
> http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/Ephemerides/Comets/2007N3.html:
>
> 2009 02 03    15 06.61   -16 41.3    0.879    1.266    85.3    50.9
> 7.2
> 2009 02 08    14 42.01   -14 57.3    0.727    1.290    96.5    49.4
> 6.9
> 2009 02 13    14 04.19   -11 54.8    0.586    1.318   111.3    44.3
> 6.5
> 2009 02 18    13 05.32   -06 25.9    0.472    1.350   131.8    33.1
> 6.2
> 2009 02 23    11 40.91   +02 15.2    0.414    1.385   159.7    14.4
> 6.0
> 2009 02 28    10 06.97   +11 23.6    0.436    1.423   170.3     6.7
> 6.2
> 2009 03 05    08 51.60   +17 09.1    0.531    1.463   146.2    22.2
> 6.8
> 2009 03 10    08 01.81   +19 53.4    0.668    1.506   129.0    30.8
> 7.4
>
> Maximum brightness will be about 6.0 mid-to-late February.  Of course,
> comets are notoriously hard to predict.
>
> J.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: chaos-l-bounces at rtpnet.org [mailto:chaos-l-bounces at rtpnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Robert Nielsen
> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 6:06 PM
> To: Chapel Hill Astronomical Observation Society
> Subject: [Chaos-l] A New Comet
>
> Everyone,
>
> Apparently there is a new comet *... ***C/2007 N3 (Lulin) ... that is 
> coming in to the solar system.  So get out your scopes and take a 
> look!   Right now it is in Libra (pretty hard to see unless you get up 
> early in the morning), but I bet it will switch constellations soon.
>
> There's a picture of it at 
> http://www.sidleach.com/comet_c2007_n3_lulin_012709.htm ... and I know 
> that when I asked my planetarium program (TheSky6) to download new 
> comets, it was in there ...
>
> Robert
> **
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