Look! Comet Lovejoy

[pscot]

Around the northern hemisphere, amateur astronomers are reporting a green fuzzball in the midnight sky. It's Comet Lovejoy (C/2014 Q2), shown here above the Dolomite mountains of northern Italy on Dec. 26th:



http://www.spaceweather.com/

[xocet]

1. Cool! K&R n/t

[Ryan Fitzomething]

2. "Won't SOMEBODY Think of The CHILDREN?????"

[dawg]

6. Help is coming over the mountains!

[eppur_se_muova]

3. Wow! I hadn't heard anything about this -- going to pass right through Taurus ...

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RFT owners might get some good photos of Lovejoy + Orion, Lovejoy + Pleaides, Lovejoy + Hyades ...

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/observing-news/binocular-comet-lovejoy-heading-c2014-q2-lovejoy-1211142/

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/wp-content/uploads/Lovejoy2_BW.pdf

[pscot]

4. It will appear just below Rigel

in Orion on January 2. From your link to Sky and Telescope:

[eppur_se_muova]

5. The 2nd link is a pdf -- show path in January. nt

[bemildred]

7. Oh my. nt