Nakedeye Mother of Dragons Comet Is Here!

Mark your calendars .. the 'Mother of Dragons' comet is here and its NAKED EYE!
** Couldn't help but think of Game of Thrones

For those in the Northern Hemisphere - The best time to witness the comet — which is three times the size of Mount Everest — will be on April 21, when it will reach its closest point to the Sun. Look low in the West an hour after sunset.

And it WILL be visible during the eclipse.

Nakedeye Mother of Dragons Comet Is Here!

Monday’s solar eclipse isn’t the only once-in-a-lifetime celestial event on the horizon. An explosive comet called the “Mother of Dragons” will be appearing after dusk for the next few weeks in the Northern Hemisphere, giving stargazers plenty of time to catch a glimpse.

“The comet will brighten a bit as it gets closer to the sun, and it should be visible to the naked eye low in the west [each evening] about an hour after sunset,” Paul Chodas, manager of the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, and Davide Farnocchia, a NASA navigation engineer told CNN in a joint email.

Dubbed Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, this cosmic hailstone only orbits the sun once every 71 years, with its last solar circumnavigation occurring in 1954.

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Thanks for this!
I’m going to try finding it this weekend!

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Posted 17 March: Everest-sized ‘Devil comet’ Pons-Brooks Visible Now

You're kind of late to the party.

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Posted 17 March: Everest-sized ‘Devil comet’ Pons-Brooks Visible Now

You're kind of late to the party.

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