First naked eye comet since Hale-Bopp!
Comet Swan has gone naked eye!
Observers in the northern hemisphere should look for it low in the Western sky just after sundown below and to the right of Hercules, closer to Hercules than to Corona Borealis. Here is a chart.
It's not nearly as spectacular as Hale-Bopp or Hyukatake, at only magnitude 4.5 or so. But it's a beautiful, ghostly green- a seasonally appropriate appearance for this Halloween comet.
Here is a picture, taken from rural Wisconsin.
Here's another, taken at higher magnification from the UK.
And here's still another, taken from Japan, at even higher magnification.
Observers in the northern hemisphere should look for it low in the Western sky just after sundown below and to the right of Hercules, closer to Hercules than to Corona Borealis. Here is a chart.
It's not nearly as spectacular as Hale-Bopp or Hyukatake, at only magnitude 4.5 or so. But it's a beautiful, ghostly green- a seasonally appropriate appearance for this Halloween comet.
Here is a picture, taken from rural Wisconsin.
Here's another, taken at higher magnification from the UK.
And here's still another, taken from Japan, at even higher magnification.
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