Berniewood Hogan
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A Rare Comet Is Zooming Past Earth Right Now, and You Should Be Able to See It With Binoculars
A Rare Comet Is Zooming Past Earth Right Now, and You Should Be Able to See It With Binoculars
The comet was first detected by NASA's NEOWISE mission in October, and its trajectory is currently taking it on a safe pass by Earth as it approaches the Sun. But as it zooms by, it should be so bright between now and January 14 that we'll be able to see it using just binoculars, and maybe even with the naked eye.
The comet, called C/2016 U1 NEOWISE, "has a good chance of becoming visible through a good pair of binoculars, although we can't be sure because a comet's brightness is notoriously unpredictable," said Paul Chodas, manager of NASA's Centre for Near-Earth Object (NEO) Studies.
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So what can you expect to see? Something a little like this, although slightly further away, seeing as this picture of the comet was taken with a telescope on December 23 in Austria:
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If you want to watch it as it whizzes by, the best place to view it from is the Northern Hemisphere next week, and you should look to the southeastern sky shortly before dawn.
"At its brightest, comet C/2016 U1 NEOWISE will pass through the constellations Ophiuchus to Serpens Cauda and Sagittarius, and is best visible in the dawn sky 12 degrees from the Sun at maximum brightness," explains Universe Today.
i got new telescope too now...if its not too cold ill be on it
Nothing fancy...i aint making no money off this...just something to get the kids excited and imagining.....hopefully 
