Bright Comet Pan-STARRS seen in skies over Australia
Reblogged from The Extinction Protocol: 2012 and beyond:
March 4, 2013 – SPACE – Bright
Comet Pan-Starrs (C/2011 L4) is now inside the orbit of Mercury,
brightening as it plunges toward the sun. Observers in the southern
hemisphere report say they can see Pan-STARRS with the unaided eye in
the evening sunset sky. Carl Gruber photographed the comet on March 2nd
over the city lights of Melbourne, Australia: “Despite bad light and
smog pollution, the comet's nucleus was clearly visible to the naked eye
as well as a small part of the tail,” says Gruber.
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