So couple of celestial 'events' going on. There's a 'green' comet that should be visible in the evening sky. Just after Sunset, look to the East lol.. There you MIGHT be able to see with the nekid eye a 'greenish' hued comet, this is 46P/Wirtanen and it's been making it's way through our inner solar system.
It's closest approach is mid December and already it's 'hue', the glow around it, is almost as big as the full Moon looks to us... NOT to say it's as visible as the full Moon, just it's glow around it is big.
According to USA Today:
"Wirtanen’s closest approach to the sun will be Wednesday, Dec. 12, and its closest approach to Earth will be Sunday, Dec. 16, EarthSky said. On that day, the comet will be "only" 7.1 million miles from Earth, which is rather close in cosmic terms. (The sun, for instance, is about 93 million miles away.)
The comet should be visible with the naked eye, but the best views will probably be through binoculars and small telescopes, especially away from city lights. "Be sure to seek out dark skies in your quest for Comet 46P Wirtanen," said David Dickenson of Universe Today.
One nuisance will be brightness from the increasingly full moon next week.
The comet and its coma (the fuzzy-looking area around the comet) will be rather large – two to three times the diameter of the moon, Sky & Telescope reported."
A photo of 46P and it's glow compared to the Moon.
It's closest approach is mid December and already it's 'hue', the glow around it, is almost as big as the full Moon looks to us... NOT to say it's as visible as the full Moon, just it's glow around it is big.
According to USA Today:
"Wirtanen’s closest approach to the sun will be Wednesday, Dec. 12, and its closest approach to Earth will be Sunday, Dec. 16, EarthSky said. On that day, the comet will be "only" 7.1 million miles from Earth, which is rather close in cosmic terms. (The sun, for instance, is about 93 million miles away.)
The comet should be visible with the naked eye, but the best views will probably be through binoculars and small telescopes, especially away from city lights. "Be sure to seek out dark skies in your quest for Comet 46P Wirtanen," said David Dickenson of Universe Today.
One nuisance will be brightness from the increasingly full moon next week.
The comet and its coma (the fuzzy-looking area around the comet) will be rather large – two to three times the diameter of the moon, Sky & Telescope reported."
A photo of 46P and it's glow compared to the Moon.
Photo credit: spaceweather.com
|I'm usually up each morning around 5am to 6am and this morning this super bright object in the Eastern sky caught my eye!
No it didn't make me cry or want to eat an apple pie!
It did however make me wonder what I was looking at... It didn't have Mars' color.. So I figured was Venus and pin an award on my chest, because I guess right! I mean it couldn't be too many other things...
Super brilliantly bright! You won't miss it, it'll be the brightest thing in the East until the Sun creeps over the horizon and don't state at the Sun....
So I took a lil vid and also two pix.
Venus at 6:03AM AST
Venus & light flares at 6:05am AST - And don't you mind about the 'UFOs' in this photo!
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