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Comet McNaught C/2009 R1 is now visible

06/09/2010 04:06PM

Comet McNaught C/2009 R1 is now visible

If you go out tomorrow morning or any morning over the next few weeks you should be able to see a fuzzy green ball glowing the the North Eastern sky at around 4:00 am until Dawn. Look for it low (10 to 20 degrees)on the Horizon in the constellation of Andromeda, use binoculars to help you find it first, then take a look through a small telescope to see the two tails.
It is barely visible to the naked eye glowing around 6th magnitude, but keep watching its expected to get brighter in the next few weeks as it gets closer to the Sun.

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Feel free to edit or change whatever you need to post it, I just want everyone to go out and take a look at this comet. I can provide a higher res image if you need, just let me know.

Thanks,
John Chumack