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Read entitled 110 Things to See With a Telescope is a guide to viewing the deep sky objects in the Messier List – for both beginners and seasoned astronomers. Contact me through AstroGeo.ca, and we’ll tour the Universe, or the Earth’s interior, together! My terrific new book with John A. I can bring my Digital Starlab portable inflatable planetarium to your school or other daytime or evening event, or teach a session online. To subscribe to these emails please click this MailChimp link. You can also follow me on Twitter as Unless otherwise noted, all times are expressed in Eastern Time. Feel free to pass this along to your friends and send me your comments, questions, and suggested topics. Here are your Astronomy Skylights for the week of December 5th, 2021 by Chris Vaughan. More recent images of the comet passing Messier 3 are available at Gregg’s terrific website at This image, which spans 1 degrees of the sky left-to-right, was NASA’s APOD for Dec 3, 2021.

Gregg Ruppel of Tucson, Arizona captured this beautiful image of the rendezvous through his telescope-mounted astro-camera.

Select the comet by checking the box in front of the search result and click ‘Add objects’ to add it to your instance of Stellariumĭone! Now you have the comet as an object available in Stellarium and you can search for it just like you would find any other object.On NovemComet C/2021 A1 (Leonard) passed between two well-known galaxies, the Whale (top right) and the Hockey Stick (lower left), otherwise known as NGC 4631 and NGC 4656, respectively.

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Go to ‘Online Search’ and search for ‘C/2014 E2’ to find comet Jacques.

Go to ‘Solar System’ and click on “Import orbital elements in MPC format”.

Go to ‘Plugins’ and click on ‘configure’.

Here is how you add it to your installation of Stellarium

Luckily there is the great free open source program Stellarium and the ability to add objects like comets to it so we can actually check on the location at any date, time and location!

But how can we plan a photograph session or how do we even know where comet Jaques will be at a certain date and time? Adding comets in Stellarium This creates great photograph opportunities to make some great pictures. With comet C/2014 E2 Jacques currently making an impressive tour through part of our milky way it is passing some very interesting objects.