... 2010 October 26 . Comet Hartley Passes a Double Star Cluster . ... Explanation: Most star clusters are singularly impressive. ... Also known as "h and chi Persei", this unusual double cluster , shown above, is bright enough to be seen from a dark location without even binoculars . ... Captured earlier this month, the bright comet 103P/Hartley , informally called Comet Hartley 2, passed well in front but only a few degrees away from the famous double cluster. ... About APOD | ...

... Credit Copyright: Rogelio Bernal Andreo Explanation: An alluring Comet Hartley 2 cruised through planet Earth's night sky on October 8, passing within about a Full Moon's width of the famous double star cluster in Perseus. ... On October 20, the comet will make its closest approach to Earth, passing within about 17 million kilometers. ... October . ... Publications with keywords: comet - Perseus cluster - Heart Nebula . Publications with words: comet - Perseus cluster - Heart Nebula . ...

... November 12, 1996 . Comet Hale-Bopp Passes M14 . ... Explanation : Comet Hale-Bopp continues its slow trek across the night sky, and can now be seen superposed near the bright globular cluster M14 . Will Comet Hale-Bopp become as bright in early 1997 as Comet Hyakutake did in early 1996? It is still too early to tell. ... Because of the size of coma , some speculate that the nucleus of Hale-Bopp is unusually large. ... Tomorrow's picture: Seven Jets from Comet Hale-Bopp . ... About APOD . ...

... Submitted by Al Takeda on 10/12/2010 13:23:34 . P103/Comet Hartley 2 and the Double Cluster . P103/Comet Hartley 2 and the Double Cluster in Perseus. The comet brightened to approximately 6th magnitude as it passed the open clusters NGC 869 and NGC 884. The clusters are separated by a few hundred light years (ly) and are 7,000 ly away. ... 8 October 2010. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

This is a series of periodic postings by Terry Moseley of the Irish Astronomical Association . ... Comet Holmes, Lecture . Issued 2007 December 11th . Big Sunspot, Lidl Scopes binos, IYA 2009 meeting, Lectures, Geminids, ISS . ... Two lectures . ... Comet Holmes, IAA Lecture, Planetarium . ... IAA Lecture, WSP, Lift from Armagh . ... Lecture in UCD, W5 events, Sputnik event at AP, IAA lecture. ... Nova, Lecture, IAA @Castle Espie, Dunsink, Sir P.M. -Issued 2007 March 19th . ... IAA Lecture . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Comets and Asteroids . ... Image credit:ESO/J.Emerson/VISTA. ... However others are less pessimistic and it has even been claimed that the mysterious ?Wow! signal? received in 1977 originated from the direction M55.б  Sadly, this still unexplained pulse of radio energy originated from a location rather to the northwest of M55 so I doubt if the source was this cluster (if indeed the signal was genuinely of extraterrestrial origin). ... Mysterious Wow! ...

... The Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is a conspicuous object in the night sky with a prominent place in ancient mythology . ... The stars in the Pleiades are thought to have formed together around 100 million years ago, making them 1/50th the age of our sun, and they lie some 130 parsecs (425 light years ) away. ... Data for these stars are listed in a table below. ... Yes . ... WEBDA Pleiades cluster data . ... M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster (2007 November 18) ...

Comet 17P/Holmes increased in brightness over a half of million times on 2007 October 24 ( APOD 2007 October 26 ). On November 1 it was still in peak of its brightness, when I pointed at it the 25-cm telescope of my home observatory located in the Nizhnyj Arkhys, Community of the Special Astrophysical Observatory in Karachai-Cherkesia, Russia. Figure 1. Comet 17P/Holmes identified in the frame of SAO 1-m Zeiss all-sky TV camera on 2007 November 1. ... Comet is a green nonstellar object. ...