Astroblog: Comet McNaught Chart for the Coming week

Thursday, January 25, 2007

Comet McNaught Chart for the Coming week

Chart of the location of comet 2006 P1 McNaught over the coming week (click to enlarge). Chart is for 40 minutes after sunset, and the comet is visible until at least 10:00 pm local time. As the week progressess, the comet gets dimmer but higher, and moonlight will interfeer with seeing the tail, but the view will still be marvelous.

Labels: 2006/P1 McNaught

# posted by Ian Musgrave @ 7:42 am

Comments:

Hi, we were staying at the Beachwood Caravan Park near Maslins Beach this past week and the viewing of the McNaught Comet was fantastic. If you go to the end of Tuit Road and turn left then first right you come to a carpark which we found the viewing fantastic.

Regards Wendy T

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