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Pojmanski Comet in View
Wolfwood writes "For the Astronomers - the Pojmanksi Comet is a very recently discovered comet, magnitude 5.3, and is currently viewable in the morning sky around 5 am in the North America."
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When I tried to view the comet, I get this message flashing in the sky: "Nothing for you to see here. Please move along."
currently viewable in the morning sky around 5 am in the North America
I'd rather enjoy my sleep thank you.
But I'm certain there are other people who care, so I'll let them enjoy the comet.
I am unamerican, and proud of it!
I for one welcome our new long tailed overlords.
Break out the Nikes and chop off those testicles. I'm outa here!
Some say he is made with ascii, others that he is eyeballed daily by millions. All we know is, he is known as the Sig
is spelling wrong in the write-up. the 'k' and 's' should be switched.
lay off the drugs, mang...
From the aricle "looking like a small, circular patch of light with a bluish-white hue and an almost star-like center".
:( !! Probably pointing away form us. I personally prefer comets with long tails, they look nice :) This will just look like some nebula. Anyway, thats not gonna dissuade me from trying to spot it (aagh will have to wake up before sunrise).
No tail
I tried checking out the comet, but the server seems to have crashed. There's a big 'bandwidth exceeded for this month' message in the sky. Way to go /., you've ruined nature.
Glad to see they named a comet after a child molester. Oh... Pojmanski? My bad.
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Apparently he's discovered two new comets. I don't know enough about astronomy to know if that is a "big deal" or not.
The Warsaw University website has a page with a cool java-based model. http://www.astrouw.edu.pl/~gp/asas/asas_c2006.htm
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Stars' brightness are rated starting at -1 for the brightest. The larger the number the dimmer the star.
More info.
I missed the chance to ride Hale-Bopp. It was about time for another mother ship to stop by, anyway.
The city is at its darkest and quietest just before dawn, and the astronomy is as good as its going to get. Sometimes I actually set my alarm and pad out to the back yard to see what's up.
I still think it's neat that the stars at dawn are the evening stars of the next season. Perhaps I need to get out more. A couple of years ago at a star party I remember watching Orion rise at dawn in August. Magic!
...laura
...5 am in the North America.
Not just any North America, folks, but the North America.
I realize this is completely off-topic, but what happened to all the mods? I browse comments at a threshold of +3, and there's a single digit number of posts that meet that criteria for all but a handful of topics over the past few days. Did /. stop handing out mod points?
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Sounds a bit picky, but a more proper way to refer to it is "Comet Pojmanski", rather than "the Pojmanski Comet". Nevertheless, it's very good to see my old friend Grzegorz having visible success with his automated all-sky monitoring cameras (ASAS) down in Chile.
Amateurs work hard to learn the sky in sufficient detail so as to be able to recognise new interlopers such as comets as they search each night, whereas Grzegorz's system is fully automated both in terms of taking the CCD images and in searching through the data for new objects and monitoring variability in known objects: the hard work lies in writing the software. The discovery of two comets is good, but almost a sideshow compared to the vast amount of useful data on transients, novae, variable stars, and so on which the ASAS project has accumulated over the years.
Returning to Comet Pojmanski finally, it's moving into the northern sky now, so even though it's not predicted to get any brighter, it should be available for more of us to see with binoculars in the early morning sky.
The fact that we discover something just now thats apperently so close to earth,(comets are small compaired to planets, stars, ect and the fact we can acually see it, to me at least, says it is fairly close compaired to other objects in the solar system.) just tells me we should put more money out there for observation-like technology. If we missed a comet, what else have we missed *shrugs*, there could be more interesting things out there.