Thank you for this inspiring video! I was able to locate the comet Jan 26 pm, from Santa Fe, NM. Very windy, and mostly fuzzy, couldn't find it the night before. Hoping to see it better in the next few days. Your video showing its trajectory is vey helpful. Clear skies!
I'm glad me and my family got to see the green comet and it was amazing. We never see something like this and it was out of this world. I hope my descendants will see this comet in 50 000 years from now.
Great video Frank, on the night off the 18 feb it is near the Klingon battlecruiser (ngc1662) that should make a nice image for trek fans, if we ever get clear skies to see it again !
this is insane... i cant wait to see it. even if i dont, im so happy i could be alive when a comet is gonna be seen from our earth. here on the 2023-01-27.
Comets are fun for sure. We occasionally get exceptional ones like Hale Bopp. But even these barely naked eye faint fuzzy dots are amazing to see move night by night across the sky.
It's much much older than that! The last time it passed through the solar system was 50K years ago. It's been calculated that on this trip in, it's orbit has been altered and it's most likely going to leave the solar system and out into space never to return. If it's orbit hasn't been sufficiently shifted and it remains bound gravitationally to the Sun then it'll be more than a million years before it returns. 😎
This is exactly what I needed to find the Jan 2023 comet using Stellarium. He gives a concise report and then tells us exactly how to find it and update coordinates on Stellarium. Stellarium is a great free planetarium which I have been using for a few years. Thanks StargazerMan! Excellent presentation...
Informative video! Thanks for posting; I saw the comet visually (as opposed to via imaging) for the first time this morning not far from the bowl of the Little Dipper. It was a distinctly fuzzy, colorless object through the bins and maybe a hint of color through my 127mm Mak at low power. My image was truly cometary as it captured the hauntingly green glow and some of the ion tail! Much brighter and larger than last week; I can't wait until perigee!
Very similar report from me tonight. My ETX125 showed it nicely although not great skies from the back garden. I'm looking forward to some clear skies to go to a dark site with the Dob.
Clear skies tonight and on route to a dark sky with the 16" Dob in the back of the car. Big Moon in the sky but this could be the last few nights to see it at it's brightest. Here's hoping!
i looked for it tonight and found it with my 10x50 binocs but it just looked like a small fuzzy cloud about the size of a dime but i did see it. kind of disappointing like they said but i did see it, brings back memories of kahoutek from the 70's.
Had a very short window of opportunity this evening to have a look for it. It's still detectable in binoculars. I see on the internet some Australian observers are catching the first views of it.
@@StargazerMan all last week we were fighting the full moon and or clouds but i got to see it on saturday after sunset and before moon rise and it was very clear and cold. it's on the move for sure. do you think there will be another chance to see it after it goes around the sun and back out into space?
I'll post pics on my RUclips channel and I would love to hear what you think!? I was just taking some pictures of the full moon and I noticed a green light in the first one...Zoomed in and wow! I am still waiting to figure it out!
This object like the other hundreds of thousands of objects that are orbiting the Sun that were also ejected from the planetary system into interstellar space.
LOVE the part of the Title Statement, "Comet MAY have passed the Earth". Fact #1: If it crossed the Earth's Orbit, and didn't Punch a HUGE Crater, or Hole through us, it OBVIOUSLY "Passed" us by !!! Fact #2 : Were there Any HUMANS around, 50 Thousand years ago, that saw it pass by, and who left Any kind of Pictures, ie: rock paintings, or written Records of it's existence? If so, Why haven't Any been found, to back - up, the statement ? Item #3: With Telescope, and Radar Tracking, Scientists SHOULD have been able to Reverse Calculate, a reasonable previous orbital path by now, UNLESS they don't consider it "worth the effort"? Just a few thoughts, no need to call names, if it's beyond anyone's attention. Comment is from Whidbey Island,Wa., Probably, most Overcast location, in U S of A.
Well, there you go. Proof you can't 'win 'em all'. Let me explain. 🙂 I actually changed the title to say 'May' to make it 'more accurate' based on a comment below about 'absolutness' in science (media). The person was saying there is no proof it ever passed Earth 50K years ago and anything with such a deep orbit from and onto space, statements about where it came from and where it's headed are all conjecture. And the thing is he's right. We can calculate very accurately the path of celestial objects, for example Halley's and determine when it will be seen from Earth again, not because of past observations, because of orbital mechanics and crunching the numbers. Obviously if some rogue asteroid crossed its path and perturbed the orbit then all the calculations go out the window. For long period comets etc it gets even more sketchy. We can make very well informed and educated guesses but anything is possible. So it's funny you commented on this after the change. Hopefully your clouds will pass and you'll get a look.
It's not well placed for Australia I'm afraid. For example, from Sydney it'll only start to become visible in the north from the 5th onwards. It'll be low in the North by 10pm. Day by day it gets a bit higher and will be alongside Mars om the 10th. It will be hard to find at this stage.
@@StargazerMan Thankyou. I have an app which I was able to use to find it. At this time it is virtually below our feet, on the other side of the globe. So not we’ll place at all.
It all depends on if you can track or not and what the local light pollution level is. If you've reasonable skies a 20 sec. shot of the general area of Polaris at a high -ish ISO and wide aperture will show it as a green fuzzy dot. If you have a standard kit lens (18-55mm) then you should pick it up. The more you zoom in the more startrailing you'll capture so at high apertures you'll need to track. I use a simple wind up tracker (Omegon Mini track / MSM tracker) with a Canon and zoom lens. Nothing award-winning but it does the job.
Yes. Not right now. Using Stellarium for location at Argentina, the comet only starts to become visible in the evening sky very low on the northern horizon around the 4/5th Feb. It then gets higher night by night (pssing Mars on the 9/10th) but it may be too dim at this stage.
I remember seeing the same in science class back in school. This is different in that the green is caused by diatomic carbons being created as the UV light from the Sun breaks down carbon molecules in the comets nucleus.
Organic Molecules??? I thought it was from the breaking down of diatomic carbon ions? By saying molecules, It seems your implying dead carbon based lifeforms???lol sorry just bored. Seriously though, Thanks for your help finding this thing I so want to show my grandson his first comet.
You're welcome! Yes, probably a poor choice of word to say 'organic' (we'll have the 'it's the little green men brigade on the bandwagon!). I spotted it last night early in the evening with binoculars. No colour and a very faint impression of a tail. The images always show it at it's best but alas, no eye will ever see it like this.
I never thought about the green indicating C2 being formed from organic molecules found in the Comet. Yes yes we've been discovering more about the chemical composition of comets. Breaking up inorganic matter like minerals is much more difficult for the Uv radiation to decompose. Organic molecules are more loosely bound together they are infinitely more volatile than inorganics. Thanks
Yikes! That's rough. I'm just back from a quick session in the back yard where there is a bit of light pollution. Caught it in my ETX-125, it's a wee fuzzy wedge with a verrrry slight hint of green. (haven't had the clear skies long enough to go out with the Dob). Hope you've better luck soon!
don't worry you well see him when you die and it well be your shock moment all people who say there is no God they are actually afraid to what gonna happen after death make jokes as you want
Thank you for this inspiring video! I was able to locate the comet Jan 26 pm, from Santa Fe, NM. Very windy, and mostly fuzzy, couldn't find it the night before. Hoping to see it better in the next few days. Your video showing its trajectory is vey helpful. Clear skies!
Thank you! Clear skies.
I'm glad me and my family got to see the green comet and it was amazing. We never see something like this and it was out of this world. I hope my descendants will see this comet in 50 000 years from now.
Great information. I have a Linux system that came with Stellarium on it and with your kind direction I was able to find the object.
Glad I could help!
fantastic video. Well done Sir. Thank you from Bowmanville Ontario Canada
Thanks for watching!
Great video Frank, on the night off the 18 feb it is near the Klingon battlecruiser (ngc1662) that should make a nice image for trek fans, if we ever get clear skies to see it again !
Oh that'll be cool!
I had a look last night with binoculars and could see it as a faint fuzzy. Only a hint of a tail.
Same! We hunted it down the other (foggy!) night in binos.
thanks for sharing my GIF! Love the video!
-Jeff Lesperance
JML Astrophotography
Thank you Jeff. Your images are great.
this is insane... i cant wait to see it. even if i dont, im so happy i could be alive when a comet is gonna be seen from our earth. here on the 2023-01-27.
Comets are fun for sure. We occasionally get exceptional ones like Hale Bopp. But even these barely naked eye faint fuzzy dots are amazing to see move night by night across the sky.
It is very interesting to see a moving object that is more than fifty thousand years old thank you
It's much much older than that! The last time it passed through the solar system was 50K years ago. It's been calculated that on this trip in, it's orbit has been altered and it's most likely going to leave the solar system and out into space never to return. If it's orbit hasn't been sufficiently shifted and it remains bound gravitationally to the Sun then it'll be more than a million years before it returns. 😎
@@StargazerMan
I wish we could put a camera on this comet to see the places it visits in the next 50 years, where it goes 😂
Can you use Stellarium to 'view as the comet '?
I haven't seen that function in Stellarium. I vaguely remember seeing it in some other planetarium program, maybe Starry Night? Cool idea though.
@@pogmathoin152 Nope
This is exactly what I needed to find the Jan 2023 comet using Stellarium. He gives a concise report and then tells us exactly how to find it and update coordinates on Stellarium. Stellarium is a great free planetarium which I have been using for a few years. Thanks StargazerMan! Excellent presentation...
Thank you. Glad you found it helpful. Clear skies!
Great video. Keep it up
Thanks!
thanks for sharing !!!
You're most welcome!
Great video! I didn't realise the Comet could be seen into February!! It's a very bright moon tonight so I'll keep trying!!! 🌠
Yes that Moon is big and bright tonight! We're heading into full moon also so it's gonna get worse before it gets better. Best of luck!
Thank u! Great video!!! I've got Stellarium downloaded already, so I'll look the comet up.
Awesome. Happy hunting.
Thank you so much for the info. Great stuff!
You're welcome!
thank you, its been raining in SA the whole month almost!
Oh no! We've only had one or two clear nights here also.
Very interesting thank you for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it
Informative video! Thanks for posting; I saw the comet visually (as opposed to via imaging) for the first time this morning not far from the bowl of the Little Dipper. It was a distinctly fuzzy, colorless object through the bins and maybe a hint of color through my 127mm Mak at low power. My image was truly cometary as it captured the hauntingly green glow and some of the ion tail! Much brighter and larger than last week; I can't wait until perigee!
Very similar report from me tonight. My ETX125 showed it nicely although not great skies from the back garden. I'm looking forward to some clear skies to go to a dark site with the Dob.
thank you for the info.... THANK YOU!!!
Any time!
thyanks
You're welcome
Oh well, I’ll wait for it’s next pass. No point in rushing 😂
It's visible in florida, i've seen it for 3 days each time i go out.
Nice!
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I appreciate that!
Clear skies tonight and on route to a dark sky with the 16" Dob in the back of the car. Big Moon in the sky but this could be the last few nights to see it at it's brightest. Here's hoping!
Thanks for all your brilliant Comet gazing tips, just hoping for clear sky's in the early hour's, binoculars at the ready!!! ☄️🌟✨️
Best of luck!
Love hunting these little nomads of the galaxy. This one is faint but nice in photos.
i looked for it tonight and found it with my 10x50 binocs but it just looked like a small fuzzy cloud about the size of a dime but i did see it. kind of disappointing like they said but i did see it, brings back memories of kahoutek from the 70's.
Had a very short window of opportunity this evening to have a look for it. It's still detectable in binoculars. I see on the internet some Australian observers are catching the first views of it.
@@StargazerMan all last week we were fighting the full moon and or clouds but i got to see it on saturday after sunset and before moon rise and it was very clear and cold. it's on the move for sure. do you think there will be another chance to see it after it goes around the sun and back out into space?
I saw the comment last night today on February 2
Nice!
I'll post pics on my RUclips channel and I would love to hear what you think!? I was just taking some pictures of the full moon and I noticed a green light in the first one...Zoomed in and wow! I am still waiting to figure it out!
Good bro
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Great video you have new subscriber, ill be see in you in the future.
Thanks!
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This object like the other hundreds of thousands of objects that are orbiting the Sun that were also ejected from the planetary system into interstellar space.
Supposed to be most visable today apparently
Totally clouded out here. Bah!
green color and blue are rich of cooper and gold
I saw it last night in Palm Springs with a pair of celstron binoculars. It’s so beautiful
Nice! Palm Springs sounds a lot warmer than rainy Ireland.
LOVE the part of the Title Statement, "Comet MAY have passed the Earth". Fact #1: If it crossed the Earth's Orbit, and didn't Punch a HUGE Crater, or Hole through us, it OBVIOUSLY "Passed" us by !!!
Fact #2 : Were there Any HUMANS around, 50 Thousand years ago, that saw it pass by, and who left Any kind of Pictures, ie: rock paintings, or written Records of it's existence? If so, Why haven't Any been found, to back - up, the statement ?
Item #3: With Telescope, and Radar Tracking, Scientists SHOULD have been able to Reverse Calculate, a reasonable previous orbital path by now, UNLESS they don't consider it "worth the effort"?
Just a few thoughts, no need to call names, if it's beyond anyone's attention. Comment is from Whidbey Island,Wa., Probably, most Overcast location, in U S of A.
Well, there you go. Proof you can't 'win 'em all'. Let me explain. 🙂
I actually changed the title to say 'May' to make it 'more accurate' based on a comment below about 'absolutness' in science (media). The person was saying there is no proof it ever passed Earth 50K years ago and anything with such a deep orbit from and onto space, statements about where it came from and where it's headed are all conjecture. And the thing is he's right. We can calculate very accurately the path of celestial objects, for example Halley's and determine when it will be seen from Earth again, not because of past observations, because of orbital mechanics and crunching the numbers. Obviously if some rogue asteroid crossed its path and perturbed the orbit then all the calculations go out the window. For long period comets etc it gets even more sketchy. We can make very well informed and educated guesses but anything is possible.
So it's funny you commented on this after the change. Hopefully your clouds will pass and you'll get a look.
To cloudy in my area of Eugene,Oregon. 🤨😑😣
Pity. I know how you feel. We only got a few hours of clear skies on this one.
For Australia, where in sky will it be?
It's not well placed for Australia I'm afraid. For example, from Sydney it'll only start to become visible in the north from the 5th onwards. It'll be low in the North by 10pm. Day by day it gets a bit higher and will be alongside Mars om the 10th. It will be hard to find at this stage.
@@StargazerMan Thankyou. I have an app which I was able to use to find it. At this time it is virtually below our feet, on the other side of the globe. So not we’ll place at all.
What length camera lens should we use and what SS?
It all depends on if you can track or not and what the local light pollution level is. If you've reasonable skies a 20 sec. shot of the general area of Polaris at a high -ish ISO and wide aperture will show it as a green fuzzy dot. If you have a standard kit lens (18-55mm) then you should pick it up. The more you zoom in the more startrailing you'll capture so at high apertures you'll need to track. I use a simple wind up tracker (Omegon Mini track / MSM tracker)
with a Canon and zoom lens. Nothing award-winning but it does the job.
I Miss the moment when the comet was still named WTF , they change it to XTF, YTF now ZTF
IKR!
is this vivible in the philippines?
It will be in a week or so but it'll be very low on the Northern horizon.
hi! i´m from Argentina... and... i think i can´t see the comet 😞
Yes. Not right now. Using Stellarium for location at Argentina, the comet only starts to become visible in the evening sky very low on the northern horizon around the 4/5th Feb. It then gets higher night by night (pssing Mars on the 9/10th) but it may be too dim at this stage.
I like star tonight more
The only thing I have seen that burned green like that was copper. Maybe it's just a big chunk of copper ore.😯
I remember seeing the same in science class back in school. This is different in that the green is caused by diatomic carbons being created as the UV light from the Sun breaks down carbon molecules in the comets nucleus.
Any idea if the green country is visible in India post Feb 2 ?
It'll start to be higher in the sky for the Southern hemisphere observers into February
It's not letting me search the comet :(
In Stellarium? Have you updated the comet list (as I show at the end of the video)
@@StargazerMan Thanks! Also it this app legit accurate/ Is it reliable? Is it connected to a telescope that keeps track of the sky?
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Physics does not support your hypothesis friend. And neither does common sense…
Organic Molecules??? I thought it was from the breaking down of diatomic carbon ions? By saying molecules, It seems your implying dead carbon based lifeforms???lol sorry just bored. Seriously though, Thanks for your help finding this thing I so want to show my grandson his first comet.
You're welcome! Yes, probably a poor choice of word to say 'organic' (we'll have the 'it's the little green men brigade on the bandwagon!). I spotted it last night early in the evening with binoculars. No colour and a very faint impression of a tail. The images always show it at it's best but alas, no eye will ever see it like this.
I never thought about the green indicating C2 being formed from organic molecules found in the Comet. Yes yes we've been discovering more about the chemical composition of comets. Breaking up inorganic matter like minerals is much more difficult for the Uv radiation to decompose. Organic molecules are more loosely bound together they are infinitely more volatile than inorganics. Thanks
Lovely green pale horse. It is not so lovely
What does that mean? I saw neowise 2 years ago and that laws beautiful. I remember seeing Hale-Bop too and that was even better.
Didn't see shit. Had the best gear and clear skies. Was this a joke or what ?
Yikes! That's rough. I'm just back from a quick session in the back yard where there is a bit of light pollution. Caught it in my ETX-125, it's a wee fuzzy wedge with a verrrry slight hint of green. (haven't had the clear skies long enough to go out with the Dob). Hope you've better luck soon!
The earth is only 6 thousand years old. Please refer to the Bible " The Word of God"
don't worry you well see him when you die and it well be your shock moment
all people who say there is no God they are actually afraid to what gonna happen after death
make jokes as you want
What a timeless joke! 🤣🤣
and it's flat.