New comet has brightened to naked-eye visibility

[turbo]

Here is a news story about it - get out those trusty old 7x50 binoculars and take a look!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=96&ncid=753&e=10&u=/space/20041207/sc_space/newcometnowvisibletonakedeye

[sporff]

will it be visible to the northern hemisphere?

[turbo]

It will be easily visible to Northern Hemisphere viewers. For a popular account, see this:

http://www.space.com/spacewatch/comet_winter_040917.html

For a very accurate ephemeris, see here:

http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/Ephemerides/Comets/2004Q2.html

[Physicsisfun2005]

excellent!!!!.............now i need a clear night :(

[Andromeda321]

Ditto.
By the way, if anyone's up for a night by night finder chart for the comet one can be found here- http://encke.jpl.nasa.gov/charts.html

[meteor]

"Astronomy Picture of the day" of today shows a picture of Comet Machholz (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html), where is possible to appreciate its two tails: the ion tail and the dust tail. The ion tail always points away from the sun
I remember seeing Hale-Bopp comet in 1997 during a holyday in the Pyrenees. Really astonishing...