Latest Comet LINEAR

[GrapesOfWrath]

Has anyone checked out the latest Comet LINEAR lately? Sky and Telescope has a finder chart, and says it should be naked eye by next week.

[Mr. X]

Damn, so many comets, so little time!

[GrapesOfWrath]

Not too many naked eye ones, though.

[David Hall]

Linear, Linear A, Linear 2000/A2. Linear 2.5, Linear Pi_r^2. Whoever this Linear guy is, he's spending entirely too much time at his telescope. [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

<font size=-1>(That's just a joke. Of course I know what LINEAR really is. Still, my head is swimming with all these similarly named comets.)</font>

Anyway, it looks like this one is going to be pretty hard for me to spot. It's in an area that's pretty close to daylight now, and I have to work late most evenings. Too bad it wasn't visible last month during the Leonid shower. It would have been a nice bonus to spot, even if only in binoculars (Which is all I have right now).

[David Hall]

Well, since this made me curious, I just checked on the LINEAR statistics to see how many comets it's actually spotted. Looks like about 60 so far.

http://www.ll.mit.edu/LINEAR/neos.html

I'm also curious as to the "Unusual Objects" listed at the bottom. The data in the links doesn't say what they actually could be.

[GrapesOfWrath]

Right now, about 8pm, it should be about south, and a little less than forty degrees up in the sky, about mag. 5.0. Should be easy to find...