{"id":8076,"date":"2024-01-31T07:52:01","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T07:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/?p=8076"},"modified":"2024-02-04T20:24:11","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T20:24:11","slug":"comet-144p-20240131","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/comet-144p-20240131\/","title":{"rendered":"Comet 144P (Kushida)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comet 144P (Kushida) is currently visible in Taurus, just west of The Hyades Star Cluster.<\/p>\n<p>I managed to capture it on the evening of the 4th of February as it approached the Hyades Star Cluster.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hyades-Comet-144P-Full-Stack-20230204-Web.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8087 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hyades-Comet-144P-Full-Stack-20230204-Web-1024x910.png\" alt=\"Hyades Comet 144p Full Stack 20230204 Web\" width=\"541\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hyades-Comet-144P-Full-Stack-20230204-Web-1024x910.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hyades-Comet-144P-Full-Stack-20230204-Web-300x267.png 300w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hyades-Comet-144P-Full-Stack-20230204-Web-1000x889.png 1000w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hyades-Comet-144P-Full-Stack-20230204-Web-768x683.png 768w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hyades-Comet-144P-Full-Stack-20230204-Web-1536x1366.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hyades-Comet-144P-Full-Stack-20230204-Web-210x187.png 210w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hyades-Comet-144P-Full-Stack-20230204-Web-1960x1742.png 1960w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hyades-Comet-144P-Full-Stack-20230204-Web.png 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 541px) 100vw, 541px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>The comet reached its maximum magnitude at the end of January, so is now starting to fade.<\/p>\n<p>The comet moves into Taurus over the next couple of weeks, moving through the Hyades Star Cluster between the 5th and 11th of February.<\/p>\n<p>It passes very close to the bright first magnitude star Aldebaran on the 10th and 11th of February.<\/p>\n<p>It moves into the northern part of Orion in march, passing into Gemini by the middle of March.<\/p>\n<p>The map below shows the movement of the comet during February and March.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Comet-144P-Kushina-February-March.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8078\" src=\"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Comet-144P-Kushina-February-March-1024x594.png\" alt=\"Comet 144p Kushina February March\" width=\"695\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Comet-144P-Kushina-February-March-1024x594.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Comet-144P-Kushina-February-March-300x174.png 300w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Comet-144P-Kushina-February-March-1000x580.png 1000w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Comet-144P-Kushina-February-March-768x446.png 768w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Comet-144P-Kushina-February-March-1536x891.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Comet-144P-Kushina-February-March-2048x1189.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Comet-144P-Kushina-February-March-210x122.png 210w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Comet-144P-Kushina-February-March-1960x1138.png 1960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/a>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comet 144P (Kushida) is currently visible in Taurus, just west of The Hyades Star Cluster. I managed to capture it on the evening of the 4th of February&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"description":"Comet 144P (Kushida) is currently visible in Taurus. Here's my map to help you find it as it moves through the Hyades and close to Aldebaran in February.","title":"Comet 144P (Kushida) - Star-Gazing"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8076","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\/8076","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=8076"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8089,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8076\/revisions\/8089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}