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Tonight may have been my best opportunity to see the comet. About 9:30pm I looked outside, and could see the big dipper, but there were white clouds along the horizon. So I checked again later, and the clouds were gone (though the sky still doesn't look very clear).
I walked out onto Qiao's pier, which gives me a better view of the sky, and looked through binoculars. I did see a star in the general location where the comet is supposed to be, with the brightness I'd expect. But I saw no tail on it. So it might have been the comet (?) but I'm not very convinced. There were other fainter stars also visible through the binoculars. It might be that the actual comet was lower in the sky, behind the trees.
I looked at other parts of the sky for a while, then back at the big dipper again, getting ready to go back inside.
Then right then, at about 11:31pm, I saw a meteor streak right through the big dipper towards the horizon!
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The comet has its own twitter account: https://twitter.com/c2020f3
It has some nice timelapse videos and photos.
This is a very neat moving diagram of the solar system and the comet:
https://theskylive.com/3dsolarsystem?obj=c2020f3
Dragging with your mouse shifts the perspective so you can watch it from any angle, and you can zoom in or out with the mouse wheel.
I think even the stars in the background are accurate; I found the big dipper, though I can't make out any other constellations what with all the faint stars and milky way also visible.
I walked out onto Qiao's pier, which gives me a better view of the sky, and looked through binoculars. I did see a star in the general location where the comet is supposed to be, with the brightness I'd expect. But I saw no tail on it. So it might have been the comet (?) but I'm not very convinced. There were other fainter stars also visible through the binoculars. It might be that the actual comet was lower in the sky, behind the trees.
I looked at other parts of the sky for a while, then back at the big dipper again, getting ready to go back inside.
Then right then, at about 11:31pm, I saw a meteor streak right through the big dipper towards the horizon!
..
The comet has its own twitter account: https://twitter.com/c2020f3
It has some nice timelapse videos and photos.
This is a very neat moving diagram of the solar system and the comet:
https://theskylive.com/3dsolarsystem?obj=c2020f3
Dragging with your mouse shifts the perspective so you can watch it from any angle, and you can zoom in or out with the mouse wheel.
I think even the stars in the background are accurate; I found the big dipper, though I can't make out any other constellations what with all the faint stars and milky way also visible.