Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Comet Hartley will be near the double cluster Thursday

The big question for us in Michigan is, will the skies be clear enough to see it?

Before you run out with binoculars to see this, remember this is a faint object and it magnitude rating is actually the overall brightest if the entire object. So it may be very faint and difficult to see. Especially in skies that we have in Lincoln Park Michigan which have a lot of sky glow and light pollution.

Here's a chart of what it should look like in a wide field telescope at low power. Keep in mind this is a charting program and the comet will look a lot fainter than this representation in even a large telescope.

The best view of it will not be a view at all but would be from a camera taking photographs of it.



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