Comet Lulin

[RichieJarvis]

Hi All,

I've seen on spaceweather.com that comet Lulin is in sight, and is set to get brighter.

Will we be able to see it from the UK? (I presume so, being in Libra) How do you get this data (http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/Ephemerides/Comets/2007N3.html) into Cartes du Ciel - its supposed to load automatically, but I get an error 302.

Thanks,

Richie

[timetraveller]

Morning Richie

i tried loading the comet data into cartes and also get a 302 error message so not sure what is going on there doesnt appear to be any other way to get the data sets into the programme either very annoying wonder if there is any way of updating Stellarium instead

regards Pete

[RichieJarvis]

Actually, after I posted this, I discovered that there is a beta version of CDC v3 out called 'SkyChart' - which I loaded last night - its here: http://www.ap-i.net/skychart/start

It has Lulin in it already, and from a quick blast around last night looks very pretty, and quite functional.

Cheers,

Richie

[Dave]

Hi Richie,

see my notes on this thread...

http://stargazerslounge.com/index.php/topic,37374.msg381822.html#msg381822

Dave

[jcm]

Yep , its in Libra. I put the elements manually into Guide 8.

Quite low Dec nearly -19 deg.

John