Comet 17p/Holmes has suddenly brightened to third magnitude and is visable in curled up arm of Perseus without any optical aid. http://www.aerith.net/comet/weekly/current.html This comet has done this before but not to this extent. You'll need a star chart to figure out which "star" shouldn't really be there. DT Date__(UT)__HR:MN R.A._(ICRF/J2000.0)_DEC T-mag N-mag delta deldot S-O-T /r S-T-O ************************************************************************************************************** $$SOE 2007-Oct-24 00:00 03 53 48.59 +50 03 29.0 17.12 18.22 1.63704939721105 -4.3152319 134.0375 /L 17.0763 2007-Oct-25 00:00 03 52 57.75 +50 08 11.4 17.14 18.21 1.63464357448866 -4.0153873 134.8018 /L 16.8159 2007-Oct-26 00:00 03 52 04.85 +50 12 34.8 17.15 18.20 1.63241239001940 -3.7104399 135.5597 /L 16.5557 2007-Oct-27 00:00 03 51 09.98 +50 16 38.8 17.17 18.19 1.63035881365348 -3.4002995 136.3105 /L 16.2959 2007-Oct-28 00:00 03 50 13.20 +50 20 23.1 17.18 18.19 1.62848588485404 -3.0848204 137.0534 /L 16.0370 2007-Oct-29 00:00 03 49 14.58 +50 23 47.2 17.20 18.18 1.62679673427111 -2.7638398 137.7875 /L 15.7793 2007-Oct-30 00:00 03 48 14.20 +50 26 50.8 17.21 18.17 1.62529458136715 -2.4372192 138.5118 /L 15.5233 2007-Oct-31 00:00 03 47 12.15 +50 29 33.7 17.23 18.17 1.62398271076454 -2.1048749 139.2254 /L 15.2693 2007-Nov-01 00:00 03 46 08.51 +50 31 55.4 17.25 18.16 1.62286443657320 -1.7667892 139.9272 /L 15.0179 $$EOE ************************************************************************************************************** Column meaning: __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com