Is there a comet around Taurus at the moment?
There are only 7 visible at the moment that are brighter then mag 15.
Observer position:
Lat = 51° 30' 00" N
Long = 00° 00' 00" W
Min. mag = 15.0
Ephemeris for UT: 2011-03-22 0:00.0 (MJD=40622.50)
-- COMETS ------------------------------ RA ----------- DEC ------- mag - phas - elo -- rise --- set --- transit ---
9P Tempel 21h 17m 54.0s -21° 12' 14.9" 12.7 95.1 -46 5:08 13:34 9:21 17.4°
123P West-Hartley 5h 31m 10.5s 37° 51' 47.0" 14.6 95.0 83 circumpolar
167P CINEOS 5h 10m 06.3s 29° 16' 47.3" 14.6 97.6 78 8:00 2:26 17:11 67.7°
C/2006 S3 LONEOS 20h 31m 13.9s -5° 50' 09.6" 13.8 99.5 -53 2:56 14:11 8:33 32.7°
C/2009 F4 McNaught 16h 38m 55.2s -74° 31' 12.2" 14.4 99.3 -96 never up today
C/2009 P1 Garradd 22h 39m 27.1s -16° 04' 04.9" 13.0 99.6 -27 5:58 15:25 10:41 22.5°
C/2010 B1 Cardinal 4h 32m 16.6s -17° 15' 45.7" 14.8 97.5 68 11:57 21:09 16:33 21.2°
thats using harvards comet data, as of 17:25 today
ALDEBARAN
"follower" (of the Pleiades)
Other Names
Cor Tauri; Parilicium.
Alpha Tauri
HR 1457
HD 29139
Data
RA 04 35 55.2
Dec +16 30 33
V 0.85
B-V +1.54
Spectral Type K5+III
comparing to ALDEBARAN
dosent look like there's any close, but it might be a new find.
Now that would be a first for the society.
Mac.
Don't get too excited Mac, I saw it on planetarium prog The Sky :D
ah, when was that data updated?