Thread: [Fremantle Maemo5] Finding comet Lovejoy with the N900 orrery program
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Originally Posted by Fatalist View Post
No, the minimum distance from our planet of C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy will be on January 19, it will probably visible with small telescopes, but, the hope is that the comet will bring some surprise and beat the expectations.

Source: http://theskylive.com/c2014q2-info
It's already visible with just binoculars. Note that the magnitude estimates in the file for the orrery are too faint (by 5 magnitudes - a factor of 100). The file was generated from the output of the NASA/JPL Horizons program, and the comet is considerably brighter now than the Horizons program predicts.
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