Positions are marked every five days with stars to magnitude 8. Comet PanSTARRS Holds SteadyĬomet PanSTARRS should hold steady at 8th magnitude as it arcs toward the Bowl of the Big Dipper this spring. Perihelion occurs on May 27th at a distance of 64.3 million kilometers. It even reaches peak brightness in the same area of the sky. Amazingly, Comet SWAN arrived just in time to pinch-hit for ATLAS in the event that comet disintegrates completely. Though bright, the comet remains low in the northeastern sky at the start of dawn throughout the best part of its apparition. On April 13th it presents a bright, dense coma and a spike of a tail.Ĭomet SWAN (C/2020 F8) will continue to brighten and move rapidly northward in the May dawn sky reaching a peak magnitude of 3.5 between May 15–23 while racing from Triangulum across Perseus. Comet SWAN (C/2020 F8) is expected to reach naked-eye visibility by mid-May low in the east at dawn. Soon it will swing northward, making its first appearance in Aquarius at 7th magnitude for southern U.S. Meanwhile, Michael Mattiazzo of Australia has found a new comet named Comet SWAN (C/2020 F8) in imagery taken by the Solar Wind ANisotropies (SWAN) camera on the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) and publicly available here.Ĭomet SWAN is presently 8th magnitude, compact, and brightening steadily as it plows across Piscis Austrinus at dawn for Southern Hemisphere observers. observers should remember to subtract one day from the dates shown in this chart and the others below. Positions are plotted daily starting at 0 h UT May 5 with stars to magnitude 6.5. New Comet C/2020 F8 is expected to brighten from 6th to 4th magnitude during May as it slingshots from Pisces into Perseus.
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