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Comet 8P/Tuttle - a naked eye object for Winter?

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17 years 2 months ago #51884 by Seanie_Morris
Does anyone have any dummy charts for this comet? I saw somewhere that it should be a naked eye comet (though faint) for early December, and that currently, it is near Polaris. Any info would be appreciated.

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17 years 2 months ago #51887 by Keith g
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All I could find so far is here Seanie, the charts are not great, but it's all I can find..

www.aerith.net/comet/catalog/0008P/2008.html

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17 years 2 months ago #51888 by Seanie_Morris
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Same here Keith. I was hoping a better map was available somewhere. Thanks for the reply.

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17 years 2 months ago #51890 by phoenix
This looks like an interesting one to watch. According to my software it will pass through or very close to M33 on 30th Dec at a predicted 5.9 magnitude. Nice photo opportunity :)

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17 years 2 months ago #51915 by Keith g
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:shock: Must make note of that! Hopefully it will be reasonably bright at even mag 5 i'd be happy, but since it is a periodic, i'm sure that it's very predictable now. Hopefully some better charts will come out over the next month or so...

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