Comet Coming

Yes, but what you need to know is that they are like No 11 buses

 

I've seen 3 of them, all at once.

 

Seriously though, any lumps from the sky, the Zig wants to know about them

 

"Even outshining the moon". But at what phase of the moon, full, gibbous or new.

I feel we should be told!

Cheers, Tony.

 

Yeah, me too. The last decent lump of rock from the sky was sold for an incredible amount of money, like in the millions.
And just a minor point, nowhere in the Bible does it say how many wise men there actually where. Three is assumed because they brought three gifts.
I saw the best view of the Hale-Bopp one, driving down the A5/483 from Wrexham towards Chirk one evening. Pity I had no camera in those days.

 

And does anyone know the name of this amazingly bright object, by the way?

 

Comet 2012 S1 (ISON)

If you want the "friendly" name [of the Finders] then that's hard to pronounce ... couple of Russian astronomers!

Full Moon ... and some

But ... trouble is ... it will come in at an angle that puts it very low in the sky, so although it is predicted to hit Magnitude -13 to -16 that will be below the horizon, and it is only predicted to be +2 at the point (20-Nov) at which it becomes too low to view in the evening sky and then, having gone around the Sun, it is predicted to be +1 on the outbound once visible again around 20-Dec

Here are the predicted Magnitude figures that I found:

17Oct +7 - Naked eye extremely dark skies (140 miles from a major city)
27Oct +6 - Naked eye very dark skies, binoculars from suburban, same as Uranus
06Nov +5 - Naked eye dark skies, same as Jupiter moons
11Nov +4 - Naked eye outer suburbs, Binoculars suburban
16Nov +3 - Naked eye surburbs, Binoculars bright, urban areas
19Nov +2 - stars of Plough, Halley's comet in 1986
Below horizon :(
22Nov +1 - planet Saturn
24Nov 0 - Naked eye unless near very bright lights
25Nov -1 - Sirius (brightest star), comet Hale-Bopp in 1995
26Nov -2 - planet Jupiter
28Nov -13 - full moon! But it will be too near Sun for viewing
04Dec -3
06Dec 0
08Dec +1
16Dec +2
Above horizon again
26Dec +3

 

You ought see what I do when there's a full moon. No, not that ! I do like to stand in the garden, and just see things by the light of the moon. I have never done of this gardening by the moon, I don't think I could stand the cold. Not good to get your chest cold !! or any other parts !! I am all right nooooooooooowwwww!