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A brief cometary note from Adrian Zielonka.

Comet 45Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova should begin to come visible with binoculars in the evening sky to the right of Venus. It’s currently at magnitude 9. It’s at perihelion (closest to the sun) on Dec 31st at a distance of 0.533 AU.

It should get much brighter than it is though comets are unpredictable though we do get  a lot closer to it. Its current distance from us is 0.959 AU (Dec19). On the 31st it will be 0.703 AU from us. It will be at its closest to us on Feb10th at a distance of 0.084 AU in the constellation of Hercules.

(1.0 AU = 93million miles)

This evening at 5:00pm the comet will approximately be 10degrees to the right of Venus and 7degrees lower.

Each evening this month at the same time it will increase it’s distance towards the setting Sun.

 

See   www.heavens-above.com for further details.

 

This entry was posted on Sunday, December 25th, 2016 at 9:26 pm.

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