Comet Tonight! Look to the skys Flagstaff!

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A greenish-blue ice ball the size of Jupiter will be racing across the sky tonight, and Flagstaff-area residents will have a front-row seat.

Not only will Comet Lulin be appearing in the east- southeast sky just after 8 p.m. The Northern Arizona University Astronomy Club will be hosting a community viewing through the new Lutz telescope at the campus observatory.

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Did anyone see it? Defenitly needed a good pair of binos, but it is there! The comet is really cranking through the sky, but if you missed it, you can still see it for a while....here is a link to the path it is taking through March (so you can get your bearing s straight with the constellations):

media.skyandtelescope.com/documents/Comet_Lulin_Mar1.pdf

Leo might be the easiest star cluster to find when looking for the comet, and here is a good picture of how to find leo (directionally):
www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=leo_chart_020322_02,0.gif&cap=SKY%20MAP:%20Find%20Regulus%20and%20other%20stars%20in%20the%20constellation%20Leo.