Comet through the Plough
by Alan Pickup from on (#2FNEQ)
How to find the, rather dim, comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresik, from the Jupiter family of comets, as it passes through our skies during the next few weeks
With a week to go until the spring equinox in Earth's northern hemisphere, the brilliant Venus is poised to plummet into our western evening twilight on its way to passing 8 N of the Sun's near side on the 25th. Meanwhile Jupiter rises in the E in mid-evening and is prominent in the S in the small hours where it stands below-left of the Moon on the 14th and alongside the Moon on the 15th.
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