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Get Out Your Comet Scorecards: Comet Nevski Now Visible With Binoculars

20 Nov , 2013 by

Is 2013 truly the “Year of the Comet?” Perhaps “Comets” might be a better term, as no less than five comets brighter than +10th magnitude grace the pre-dawn sky for northern hemisphere observers. Comet C/2013 V3 Nevski has just brightened up 6 magnitudes — just over a 250-fold increase in brightness — and now sits at around […]

Comet LINEAR Suddenly Brightens with Outburst: How to See It

23 Oct , 2013 by

It’s swiftly becoming an “all comets, all the time” sort of observing season. The cyber-ink was barely dry on our “How to Spot Comet 2P/Encke” post this past Monday when we were alerted to another comet that is currently in the midst of a bright outburst. That comet is C/2012 X1 LINEAR. Discovered on December […]

New Data: Will Comet ISON Survive its Close Perihelion Passage?

9 Oct , 2013 by

It’s the question on every astronomer’s mind this season, both backyard and professional: will Comet C/2012 S1 ISON survive perihelion? Now, new studies released today at the American Astronomical Society’s 45th Annual Division for Planetary Sciences meeting being held this week in Denver suggests that ISON may have the “right stuff” to make it through […]

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