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Comet ATLAS
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Comet ATLAS
Coming soon to a sky near you, Comet ATLAS is brightening very rapidly. If it survives then it could become visible to the unaided eye in the next week or two. Its peak magnitude in early May is difficult to predict but best bets range from an impressive magnitude +1 to a dazzling -5! The latter would make it visible in broad daylight.

Yes, I know, yet another harbinger of doom. Just what we needed.
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I'd like to see some charting to help us find it now.
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(03-20-2020, 11:30 PM)Paleophyte Wrote: Coming soon to a sky near you, Comet ATLAS is brightening very rapidly. If it survives then it could become visible to the unaided eye in the next week or two. Its peak magnitude in early May is difficult to predict but best bets range from an impressive magnitude +1 to a dazzling -5! The latter would make it visible in broad daylight.

Yes, I know, yet another harbinger of doom. Just what we needed.

I know whose doom I'd like for it to predict! I can just imagine the religulous looking at that portent in the sky...and buying more toilet paperDodgy
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
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Look, don't tease us. Is it going to crash into Earth or not?
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sheeit Jerry read the link. No portent of doom in there. It might just burn out before we get the best views.
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(03-20-2020, 11:41 PM)jerry mcmasters Wrote: Look, don't tease us.  Is it going to crash into Earth or not?

We should be fine. It's observing planetary distancing.
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(03-21-2020, 12:09 AM)Paleophyte Wrote:
(03-20-2020, 11:41 PM)jerry mcmasters Wrote: Look, don't tease us.  Is it going to crash into Earth or not?

We should be fine. It's observing planetary distancing.

We should call Bruce Willis and have him ready, just in case.
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(03-20-2020, 11:41 PM)jerry mcmasters Wrote: Look, don't tease us.  Is it going to crash into Earth or not?

We should be so lucky!
Robert G. Ingersoll : “No man with a sense of humor ever founded a religion.”
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(03-20-2020, 11:35 PM)skyking Wrote: I'd like to see some charting to help us find it now.

[Image: 1024px-Comet_2019_Y4_ATLAS-sky.png]

Looks like it's mucking about off the tip of the Big Dipper right now.

[Image: comet_ATLAS_april-may.png]

Slated to pass through Perseus round about perihelion, so well-located for northern hemisphere observers.
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thanks man, I am a relative novice but I can always locate the dippers Big Grin
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If it gets as bright as they're predicting then just look up. It will get difficult to miss if it gets into the negative magnitudes even with light pollution.
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I am talking about now, not in May. It may not survive intact till the high magnitude times.
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#13

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Cosmic traffic lights. Betelgeuse dimming and then ATLAS showing up.

(grabs towel, Just In Case)
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(03-21-2020, 06:33 AM)Astreja Wrote: Cosmic traffic lights.  Betelgeuse dimming and then ATLAS showing up.

(grabs towel, Just In Case)

DON'T PANIC
“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. 
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
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Fuck that. A motion to panic is always in order.
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(03-21-2020, 08:25 AM)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Fuck that. A motion to panic is always in order.

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“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. 
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
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Yeah, whatever that means!
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(03-21-2020, 09:10 AM)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Yeah, whatever that means!

Sounds like you may need ...........

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Robert G. Ingersoll : “No man with a sense of humor ever founded a religion.”
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But "We're all gonna die" is Beaker's normal mode!
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(03-22-2020, 02:05 AM)brewerb Wrote:
(03-21-2020, 09:10 AM)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Yeah, whatever that means!

Sounds like you may need ...........

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Won't work for me, I'm male.
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For those of you looking for it with telescope or bincoulars:

[Image: skymap_atlas_24mar20_strip2.png]
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Oh, great! Along comes a great opportunity for astrophotography and I sold my observatory in 1990.  Facepalm
“I expect to pass this way but once; any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.” (Etienne De Grellet)
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(03-25-2020, 12:01 PM)Gwaithmir Wrote: Oh, great! Along comes a great opportunity for astrophotography and I sold my observatory in 1990.  Facepalm

Use your cell phone.
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