Two Bright Comets for 2013?
by Eagleseye on , under Astronomy Blog
After a while without a really bright comet, we might just be in line for two next year.
If things go as expected, (But you never can tell how comets will behave!).
Click here to see my diagrams for their possible appearances next year.
Or here for animations of their appearances.
Comet C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS) could be very bright in March, heading north and passing close to the Andromeda Galaxy in early April in the early morning sky.
http://www.aerith.net/comet/catalog/2011L4/2011L4.html
Path of comet C/2011 L4 from now until next April.
In November 2013, Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) could be an extremely bright object as it passes very close to the Sun.
It could be a naked eye object for a couple of months.
It is currently in Gemini, where it will stay for quite a while.
It will then pass through Leo and Virgo by the middle of November 2013.
At the end of November it will pass close to the Sun, then heads almost directly northwards.
It passes not too far from M13 on the 21st of December.
It will then pass a few degrees away from Polaris on the 7th of January.
Path of Comet C/2012 S1 over the next year and a half.
More details on the Sky & Telescope Web page.
More details will be posted here closer to the events, showing more detailed finder charts.
See the SkyHound Web page for more comet news.
Dave
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Sky Diary for October 2012 – Keep Looking Up. «
September 30th, 2012 on 10:30 am[...] If predictions are right 2013 could bring us two extremely bright comets. One in March and one from November into early 2014. More news here. [...]
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Sky Diary for November 2012 – Keep Looking Up! «
November 1st, 2012 on 1:08 pm[...] If predictions are right 2013 could bring us two extremely bright comets. One in March and one from November into early 2014. More news here. [...]
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Sky Diary for December 2012 – Keep Looking Up! «
November 30th, 2012 on 3:04 am[...] If predictions are right 2013 could bring us two extremely bright comets. One in March to April 2013 and one from November 2013 into early 2014. More news here. [...]
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Appearance of PANSTARRS and ISON Comet next year. «
December 6th, 2012 on 1:09 pm[...] Astronomy Blog Following on from the news about two possible extremely bright comets next month, See details here I have run Sky Safari to see what the comets will look like from the UK next [...]
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Sky Diary for January 2013 – Keep Looking Up! «
December 30th, 2012 on 7:12 am[...] If predictions are right 2013 could bring us two extremely bright comets. One in March to April 2013 and one from November 2013 into early 2014. More news here. [...]
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November 1st, 2012 on 11:31 am
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November 7th, 2012 on 7:31 pm
Is that apparent retrograde motion of ISON?
January 7th, 2013 on 10:11 am
Regards for composing “Two Bright Comets for 2013?
February 14th, 2013 on 9:34 pm
Congratulations for the excelent site,ancient Chinese are the first who found out the periodically passing of the comets, astronomers and cosmologists are the scientists who are looking every day to the heavens, thats why they are always happy, in addition to economologists in this period of continous global crises…