Green Comet visible Tonight.....

[pinkgeranium]

The Green Comet Lulin should be visable from the UK at around midnight tonight.

Its cloudy in London, but I will still be out with my Camera.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/stargazers-hope-for-glimpse-of-green-comet-1630849.html

[itsallundercontrol]

Do you think binoculars/telescope will be needed?
Id love to see it and will be looking but only have my naked eye
thanks for the heads up anyway

[pinkgeranium]

I hope its visable to the naked eye,



Having said that, All I can see at the moment is flippin clouds.........:mad:

It would be great if someone would take a photo and put it on here.

[itsallundercontrol]

yeah im in the midlands just been outside and its really thick clouds or should i say cloud i cant see any breaks in it at all......:(

[Ian2day]

What direction will this be? Will we also be able to see the green Goblin! :D

[jesuitsdidit]

Independent: University of Leicester researcher Jenny Carter said: "The closest it will be is tonight when it moves close to Saturn in the sky, around half-past midnight. It's almost due south at that time.

"It will be better, obviously, if you have binoculars or a telescope and find a clear, dark sky."

...At around midnight, UK space scientists and amateur stargazers will be looking due south for a glimpse of the unusual celestial body as it reaches its nearest point to Earth.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/stargazers-hope-for-glimpse-of-green-comet-1630849.html

[scatlond]

Cloudy :(

[beldazar]

Yes cloudy down in Kernow too :(

[sithnemesis]

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/images/greencomet/Jack-Newton1_strip.jpg http://technologygateway.nasa.gov/texpo/images/NASA_logo.jpg

http://spaceweather.com/comets/lulin/02feb09/rolando-ligustri1.jpg

http://spaceweather.com/comets/lulin/27jan09/Sid-Leach1.jpg

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/04feb_greencomet.htm (http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/04feb_greencomet.htm) http://www.saintsagainsttyranny.com/oldUSflag.jpg :)

[rixxmixxhell]

Damn cloudy here still

[dlb2007]

cloudy in Durham

[adzboarder]

Cloudy in Kent - nothing to see, dark as the gates of hell out in the sticks.

Do you think the ptb have deliberately done their thing with the chemtrails to make it so that we CANT see the comet as it would tell us more about the impending "big one" ?

[hitithard]

god dam clouds in east anglia too!

[itsallundercontrol]

Cloudy in Kent - nothing to see, dark as the gates of hell out in the sticks.

Do you think the ptb have deliberately done their thing with the chemtrails to make it so that we CANT see the comet as it would tell us more about the impending "big one" ?

The same thought crossed my mind earlier. I was very sceptical about the whole chemtrail thing at first but since ive been looking out for it im becoming a believer. I saw planes spraying for the first time in ages a few days ago and all over the country it is cloudy......:confused:

Pure speculation i know but just a thought.

[misterethoughts]

Is it going to kill us?

[jesuitsdidit]

shd b visible till end Mar

was to be found just below the mid-point of a direct line between Castor and Regulus few days ago - dont know if position changes

binos an advantage..

[jesuitsdidit]

2 find regulus
find plough (saucepan)
if star 1 is at end handle and star 7 is lip of pan
draw line from star 4 to 5 and continue down to bright star which forms the dot at bottom of 'the question mark'
this is reg

to find castor find orion
(orion is to the right of regulus)
draw line from Rigel thru Betelgeuse to Castor (upper of 2 bright stars Castor and Pollux) see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_(constellation)
and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollux_(star)

[jesuitsdidit]

orion is to the right of regulus

[beldazar]

Thanks jesuitsdidit, the weather is meant to be clear down in Kernow fri ans sat, I will take a look :)

[jayelowell]

http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?t=52375

[jesuitsdidit]

MARCH: Following Lulin Out

Comet Lulin crosses from Leo into Cancer at the beginning of March and, having passed opposition, is now better seen in the evening than the morning hours. But observers will have to contend with moonlight from about March 1st through 11th.

The night of March 5th sees the 6th-magnitude comet within 2° of both Delta (δ) Cancri and the Beehive Cluster, M44. But the Moon is also nearby.

Another conjunction occurs on March 16th when the comet, now around 7th or 8th magnitude but in a dark sky (and best seen in early evening), is 1° from Delta Geminorum.

As Comet Lulin recedes, its passage across our sky will slow. Indeed, from the end of March to the end of May (when Lulin may have faded to 11th magnitude) it will stay within a narrow, 3° strip of sky bounded by Epsilon (ε), Mu (μ), and 36 Geminorum. By May's end it will be lost in the afterglow of sunset.

Comet Lulin won’t return again to the inner solar system for more than a thousand years.

http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?t=51987&page=9

[jesuitsdidit]

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/1381/lulinpath341px.jpg (http://img12.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lulinpath341px.jpg)
http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/lulinpath341px.jpg/1/w341.png (http://g.imageshack.us/img12/lulinpath341px.jpg/1/)


this wd suggest it'll be moving twards Castor i think..


http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/highlights/35992534.html

[jesuitsdidit]

If you'd like a more detailed finder chart than the one at right, or one that goes past March 1st, click the appropriate date range below (printable PDF format):
Jan. 1 – Feb. 14
Feb. 13 – Mar. 2
Mar. 3 – Mar. 20
Mar. 14 – May 1


http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/highlights/35992534.html

[jesuitsdidit]

good info here

http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?t=52375&highlight=lulin

[jesuitsdidit]

think will b clear tonite..

[jayelowell]

UPDATED: Comet Lulin Photo Gallery (http://spaceweather.com/comets/gallery_lulin_page18.htm?PHPSESSID=t66fa6ughb05fh8 0hm5cih9te5)
[Comet Hunter Telescope (http://store.explorescientific.com/152mmcomethunterotawcaseandaccy.aspx)] [Sky maps: March 5 (http://spaceweather.com/images2009/05mar09/skymap_north_lulin.gif?PHPSESSID=t66fa6ughb05fh80h m5cih9te5), 6 (http://spaceweather.com/images2009/06mar09/skymap_north_lulin.gif?PHPSESSID=t66fa6ughb05fh80h m5cih9te5), 7 (http://spaceweather.com/images2009/07mar09/skymap_north_lulin.gif?PHPSESSID=t66fa6ughb05fh80h m5cih9te5)]