Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site npois.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!seismo!lll-crg!dual!qantel!ihnp4!houxm!mtuxo!npois!jay From: jay@npois.UUCP (Anton Winteroak) Newsgroups: net.astro Subject: Halleys Comet this month Message-ID: <451@npois.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 10:08:00 EST Article-I.D.: npois.451 Posted: Mon Nov 4 10:08:00 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Nov-85 05:45:39 EST Organization: ATTIS, Neptune, NJ Lines: 13 If you have a good pair of binoculars you can see Halley's Comet this month. It is high in the Northern Sky, and will get as bright as magnitude 6.2 It is presently moving from Orion and Gemini into Taurus. On the nights from November 14th through 17th, the moon will set early, and the comet will be within about two degrees of the Plaedes (sp?) betwenn magnitudes 7 and 6.5. It will appear as a starlike object with a round hazy area centered on the bright spot. It is unlikely that there will be much of a tail visable, since it will be more than 1.5 times as far from the sun as we are.