It will be interesting to see it by M37 though. Erik:
Comet 2008 T2 (Cardinal) is rather dim for casual amateur observing. It's at 12th magnitude and there are currently 8 brighter comets in the sky according to Seichi Yoshida's excellent website.
http://www.aerith.net/comet/weekly/current.html
It should brighten to 10th magnitude by June but will be in the wrong part of the sky for summer viewing.
DT
--- On Sun, 3/29/09, erikhansen@TheBlueZone.net <erikhansen@TheBlueZone.net> wrote:
From: erikhansen@TheBlueZone.net <erikhansen@TheBlueZone.net> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Found a comet (sort of) To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Sunday, March 29, 2009, 8:38 AM
Speaking of comets. Anyone see Comet Cardinal? On 23 April it will pass by M37.
Erik
While preparing to develop Friday night's test images I came across
three plates I'd put away long ago and never got around to developing.
So after finishing with Friday's shots I plopped the three mystery plates in the developer.
Alas, sitting at room temperature for what I can now see were 12 years took their toll but the subject of the pictures is recognizable:
http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/hb1997.jpg
Hmmm, maybe I could pass them off as astro photos taken in the 19th century. :)
patrick
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