Comet Machholz

[ommigosh]

It's worth having a look at this comet just now. Should be visible to the naked eye but its best best viewed with binoculars or a small telescope. Comet Machholz will be quite visible throughout January 2005. Just now (5th January) it is a couple of finger widths below the Pleiades and Orion's belt seems to points roughly at it (going from left to right). It appears as quite a large smudge in my binoculars. Have a look.

 

[Alexa]

For those without binoculars, like me, the net offers the view from Canton, New York :

http://it.stlawu.edu/~aodo/SLU/astronomy/skyevents.htm

 

[Maryjane]

Use your super vision.

 

[Esioul]

We have a telescope, so I might try to get a look tonight.