As requested, this is a reminder about comet NEOWISE, as the weather should be clear for much of the country for the next few evenings. I managed to see it last night in the twilight with binoculars. Although it is starting to fade it was not difficult to see, and very bright in my telescope. I could not see it with the naked eye, but there was a bright star nearby which made it difficult, and it will also be easier when it is darker, between 12 and 2.
@Alan Clark2 in Liverpool, l read somewhere that it would be to the South of "The Plough" and brighter around the 26th of this month. Is that correct do you know ?
It will be closest to Earth on the 23rd, but it will be further from the Sun so it should be dimmer then, unless it flares up, which occasionally happens. Comets are very unpredictable!
If you look at the charts in the link it shows the Plough, above and to the left of the comet. Over the net few weeks it will move left and slightly higher, passing South of the Plough.
Husband is 6ft 2 and weighs 11 stone 4 : the same as he's been since he was 18. The only time it varied was last year when he had cancer.
I've got plenty to spare if he wants some more :-) My dad was 6 ft 2 and weighed just under 10 stone. Sadly I follow my mother's side of the family who were more generously proportioned.
According to the charts I was officially underweight as a teenager, I was told by a Doc I would fill out when I was older. I am only just in the "normal" range for my height now, at this rate I will be about 110 before I "fill out"
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I managed to see it last night in the twilight with binoculars. Although it is starting to fade it was not difficult to see, and very bright in my telescope. I could not see it with the naked eye, but there was a bright star nearby which made it difficult, and it will also be easier when it is darker, between 12 and 2.
https://www.schoolsobservatory.org/learn/astro/nightsky/maps/hz24
Is that correct do you know ?
If you look at the charts in the link it shows the Plough, above and to the left of the comet. Over the net few weeks it will move left and slightly higher, passing South of the Plough.
I've got plenty to spare if he wants some more :-) My dad was 6 ft 2 and weighed just under 10 stone. Sadly I follow my mother's side of the family who were more generously proportioned.