Comet Machholz Now Visible to Naked Eye

An anonymous reader submits "A comet discovered only this summer is brightening quickly and already visible to the unaided eye. Comet Macholz should be visible to the unaided eye until late January. On the night of January 7 - 8, it will sail about 2 degrees (4 Moon widths) to the west of the easily recognisable Pleiades star cluster, often known as the Seven Sisters. It will be at its closest to Earth Jan. 5-6, 2005, when it will be 32 million miles away." (Mentioned a few days ago, too.)

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[thegrassyknowl]

Blasted clouds... well, I'm off to invent some kind of cloud transparent making machine.

I haven't seen anything that says this baby should be seen in Adelaide (or the southern hemisphere at all). I wish it wasn't so cloudy... I'd head out and have a look.

Whatever you do, don't turn left just before Pt Wakefield (heading north) .. there is some sort of army proving ground out there and we were hassled by police for even turning down that road to stop and look up late one night.

A.