[Chaos-l] more on Comet McNaught

[Tony Rice]

It's magnitude 6 now but is expected to get much brighter towards the end of
the month, as it moves from the constellations of Perseus then above Ariga
(and Capella).  This weekend's new moon should offer a good opportunity to
spot it.


Nice diagram of the path
http://media.<http://media.skyandtelescope.com/documents/WEB_McNaught_Path.pdf>
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_Path. <http://media.skyandtelescope.com/documents/WEB_McNaught_Path.pdf>pdf<http://media.skyandtelescope.com/documents/WEB_McNaught_Path.pdf>

Story from Astronomy Magazine:
http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=9917

Gory details from JPL database including an interactive view of the orbit:
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2009%20R1;orb=1;cov=0;log=0;cad=0#orb
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