{"id":3849,"date":"2020-02-23T15:07:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T15:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/?p=3849"},"modified":"2020-03-19T14:22:25","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T14:22:25","slug":"c2019y4-owl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/c2019y4-owl\/","title":{"rendered":"Comet C\/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) passes The Owl Nebula and M108"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See my blog entry on the comet with maps of its full path here:<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/comet-c2019y4-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/comet-c2019y4-2020<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On the 24th and 25th of February Comet C\/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) passes about 1 degree of The Owl Nebula M97.<\/p>\n<p>On the 26th it also passes close to the galaxy M108, as it makes its way into the bowl of The Plough near Merak.<\/p>\n<p>Use the map at the bottom of this blog entry to find the comet.<\/p>\n<p>The image below by Michael J\u00e4ger of Wei\u00dfenkirchen, Austria, was taken as the comet was approaching the Owl nebula on the 21st of February.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spaceweathergallery.com\/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=159575\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft \" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweathergallery.com\/submissions\/pics\/m\/Michael-Jager-2019Y420200221ut2200large_1582392791_lg.jpg\" width=\"287\" height=\"431\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The galaxy is currently at 12th magnitude, so will require a reasonably large scope and dark skies.<\/p>\n<p>It should be relatively easy to capture in photographs as it makes a great photo opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>So we have three days chances of at least seeing something.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s if these winds and clouds ever give us a break.<\/p>\n<p>The map was generated using <span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ffffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.astrosurf.com\/c2a\/english\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">C2A planetarium software<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/C2019Y4Owl-108.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3850 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/C2019Y4Owl-108.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1199\" height=\"855\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/C2019Y4Owl-108.png 1199w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/C2019Y4Owl-108-600x428.png 600w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/C2019Y4Owl-108-300x214.png 300w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/C2019Y4Owl-108-1024x730.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/C2019Y4Owl-108-768x548.png 768w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/C2019Y4Owl-108-210x150.png 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See my blog entry on the comet with maps of its full path here: https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/comet-c2019y4-2020 On the 24th and 25th of February Comet C\/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) passes about 1 degree of The Owl Nebula M97. On the 26th it also passes close to the galaxy M108, as it makes its way into the bowl of [&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 C\/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) passes The Owl Nebula and M108 - Star-Gazing","description":"See my blog entry on the comet with maps of its full path here: https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/comet-c2019y4-2020 On the 24th and 25th of February Comet"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3849","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=3849"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4047,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3849\/revisions\/4047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}