Re: [BAA Comets] 2021 A1 (Leonard)
Nick James 02 Dec 2021 10:40 UTC
Hi Ronan,
On December 8 we cross the orbit plane so there may be a dust spike
visible then. The geometry with respect to the sun is such that a
forward scattering enhancement to the magnitude is possible. On
comets-ml Michael Mattiazzo suggested this could be 1 - 2 magnitudes. We
will have to observe it to find out!
It will be visible, just, in the evening as it dives south at the end of
next week. Until then it is much better in the morning.
There's an article on the BAA website here:
https://britastro.org/node/26346
Nick.
On 02/12/2021 10:13, Ronan Newman wrote:
> Hi
>
> Johnathan.
>
> Will it skirt evening sky twilight? I see Spaceweather mention back
> scattering or is that not just hype?
>
> Many Thanks