{"id":7900,"date":"2023-09-23T08:36:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-23T08:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/?p=7900"},"modified":"2023-09-23T09:57:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T09:57:56","slug":"comet-103p-20230923","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/comet-103p-20230923\/","title":{"rendered":"Comet 103P \/ Hartley 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are three comets to look out for the next few months and into next year.<\/p>\n

These are, Comet 2P \/ Encke<\/strong><\/span>, 29P \/ Schwassman-Wachmann<\/span> <\/strong>and 103P \/ Hartley 2.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Here’s the details and map for Comet 103P \/ Hartley 2.<\/p>\n

103P \/ Hartley 2 <\/span><\/strong>is currently moving away from the constellation of Auriga, into Gemini.
\nIt is very high up at 70\u00b0 just before dawn so should be easy to follow for quite a while.<\/p>\n

The comet is currently about 11th magnitude, but it could reach a peak brightness of magnitude 7.9 by the end of October.<\/p>\n

The comet passes a few objects along the way, which should make it a bit easier to find.<\/p>\n

On the 5th of October, 103P is right on the body line of Castor in Gemini.<\/p>\n

After passing between the twins on the 8th, it passes very close to the planetary nebula NGC2392, the Eskimo Nebula.<\/p>\n

As the comet brightens we can follow it into the lower part of Cancer and onto Hydra (Not shown)<\/p>\n

After this, the comet heads south, but as it slows, it should remain visible until next April.<\/p>\n

Please Note: The Comet appears bigger on my map than it will (in the rear view mirror? \ud83d\ude01).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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There are three comets to look out for the next few months and into next year. These are, Comet 2P \/ Encke, 29P \/ Schwassman-Wachmann and 103P \/ Hartley 2. Here’s the details and map for Comet 103P \/ Hartley 2. 103P \/ Hartley 2 is currently moving away from the constellation of Auriga, into […]<\/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 103P \/ Hartley 2 - Star-Gazing","description":"There are three comets to look out for the next few months and into next year. These are, Comet 2P \/ Encke , 29P \/ Schwassman-Wachmann and 103P \/ Hartley 2. Her"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-sky-diary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7900","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=7900"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7907,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7900\/revisions\/7907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}