The Neowise comet

[lee_merrill]

A comet is visible in the northern hemisphere, the Neowise comet:

Source: NASA

Through about the middle of the month, the comet is visible around 10 degrees above the northeastern horizon (the width of your outstretched fist) in the hour before dawn. From mid-July on, it's best viewed as an evening object, rising increasingly higher above the northwestern horizon. (Note that observers at lower latitudes will see the comet lower in the sky, while it will appear higher for observers farther north.)

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Blessings,
Lee

[Sparko]

neat.

[Cow Poke]

Pretty sure I saw it last night, but wanted to confirm.

[Sparko]

aren't comets supposed to bring plagues and stuff? This one is late!

[Cow Poke]

aren't comets supposed to bring plagues and stuff? This one is late!

Maybe it's gonna smash into earth and kill the virus.

[Cow Poke]

How to see Comet NEOWISE in the night sky this month

The early reviews are in: Comet NEOWISE is a hit!

Those who have gotten up before sunrise to gaze into the twilight skies have been greeted by the best comet performance for Northern Hemisphere observers since the 1997 appearance of Comet Hale-Bopp. Indeed, NEOWISE (catalogued C/2020 F3), emphatically ended the nearly quarter-century lack of spectacular comets.

Early fears of another fizzler like comets ATLAS and SWAN quickly eased during June when NEOWISE proved to be an intrinsically bright comet with a highly condensed core. It brightened 100-fold from June 9, when as a seventh-magnitude object it disappeared into the glare of the sun, to June 27, when it appeared in the field of view of the LASCO-3 camera on NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory shining at second-magnitude.

Even before Comet NEOWISE arrived at perihelion — its closest point to the sun — observers could glimpse it very low to the northeast horizon, immersed deep in bright twilight, just before sunrise on July 1.

[TheLurch]

Maybe it's gonna smash into earth and kill the virus.

[Sparko]

Maybe it's gonna smash into earth and kill the virus.

Wormwood!

[Faber]

Internet crackpot Paul Begley connects the comet and the solar eclipse "ring of fire" with the coming apocalypse.

https://www.the-sun.com/lifestyle/te...of-apocalypse/

From what I understand, the comet can now be seen in the northwest shortly after sunset.

[Sparko]

Internet crackpot Paul Begley connects the comet and the solar eclipse "ring of fire" with the coming apocalypse.

https://www.the-sun.com/lifestyle/te...of-apocalypse/

From what I understand, the comet can now be seen in the northwest shortly after sunset.

It's about time! When we don't have plagues and comets we have every crackpot in the world predicting the apocalypse because of some weird date or alignment of planets. But since we had COVID-19 I haven't seen anyone predicting this was the end. I was getting worried that it might BE the end since nobody was predicting it. But now I can relax.



whew.