I put my comments on the Environment thread as it gets more clicks than Space, DEW. 😁I certainly find that true from personal experience. I seldom bother to put out my telescope now.Got a dramatic view of ISS rising in the west yesterday evening.Roger
I put my comments on the Environment thread as it gets more clicks than Space, DEW. 😁
I certainly find that true from personal experience. I seldom bother to put out my telescope now.
Got a dramatic view of ISS rising in the west yesterday evening.
Roger
FWIW if it's of interest, you shouldn't need a telescope to view Comet 2022 E3 [ZTF]...maybe naked eye is optimistic, but binoculars will suffice if the sky is clear.
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Comet 2022 E3 [ZTF] is currently visible to the naked eye. Whilst it is past it's brightest, it's closest approach to the earth is on 1st February 2023. It's suggested that the last time this green tailed comet would have been visible on earth would have been during the Ice Age ........https://science.nasa.gov/comet-2022-e3-ztf
Comet 2022 E3 [ZTF] is currently visible to the naked eye. Whilst it is past it's brightest, it's closest approach to the earth is on 1st February 2023. It's suggested that the last time this green tailed comet would have been visible on earth would have been during the Ice Age ........
https://science.nasa.gov/comet-2022-e3-ztf
I'm adding this link to your useful Heads Up, John:
"Now that the comet has finally broken out of the constellation of Corona Borealis, where it has been for a long time, and is visible in both the morning and evening sky for observers at mid-northern latitudes, it is heading north, gaining speed as it pushes up past the handle of the Big Dipper en-route to its month’s end fly-by of Polaris, the Pole Star."
How to see Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) in the sky
https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/advice/comet-c-2022-e3-ztf/
West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire
Everything taken together, here in Lincolnshire are more good things than man could have had the conscience to ask.
William Cobbett, in his Rural Rides - c.1830
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64411469
130 metres ASL
52.0N 0.1E
A very recently discovered asteroid will pass within 2,200 miles of Earth tonight; that’s extremely close - well inside the orbits of many of our satellites.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64411469
A very recently discovered asteroid will pass within 2,200 miles of Earth tonight; that’s extremely close - well inside the orbits of many of our satellites.
"The size of a double-decker bus" - nice photo-montage on BBC!
R.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jD6rH6zdnQ
--Roger P, 12/Oct/2022
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-64458511
Possibly a SpaceX launch phenomenon
Chichester 12m asl
https://www.sciencefocus.com/space/full-moon-snow-2023/