{"id":3126,"date":"2019-09-05T14:15:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T14:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/?p=3126"},"modified":"2019-09-05T14:15:22","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T14:15:22","slug":"comet-260p-mcnaught","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/comet-260p-mcnaught\/","title":{"rendered":"Comet 260P (McNaught)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another comet that will be good to go out and watch is 260P (McNaught).<br \/>\nIt is currently heading northwards in the constellation of Aries.<\/p>\n<p>Images taken of the comet show it sporting a short but very distinct tail.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of September the comet is in Perseus at about 11th magnitude, but still slowly brightening.<br \/>\nBut it is not predicted to get very much brighter.<\/p>\n<p>On the 8th and 9th of October the comet passes close to the open cluster M34.<\/p>\n<p>The map below shows the path of the comet during September.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/Images\/Comet260P-Sep2019.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium_large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/Images\/Comet260P-Sep2019.png\" width=\"1503\" height=\"861\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the end of October and into November, the comet starts to trace out a retrograde loop.<\/p>\n<p>The map below shows the path of the comet during October and November.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/Images\/Comet260P-Oct2019.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium_large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/Images\/Comet260P-Oct2019.png\" width=\"1503\" height=\"861\" \/><\/a>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another comet that will be good to go out and watch is 260P (McNaught). It is currently heading northwards in the constellation of Aries. Images taken of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Comet 260P (McNaught) - Star-Gazing","description":"Another comet that will be good to go out and watch is 260P (McNaught). It is currently heading northwards in the constellation of Aries. Images taken of the co"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3128,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3126\/revisions\/3128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}