{"id":1423,"date":"2006-10-04T18:47:15","date_gmt":"2006-10-04T22:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=1423"},"modified":"2006-10-04T18:50:22","modified_gmt":"2006-10-04T22:50:22","slug":"comet-swan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2006\/10\/04\/comet-swan\/","title":{"rendered":"Comet SWAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/skymap_cometSWAN.gif\" title=\"skymap_cometSWAN.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1424\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/skymap_cometSWAN.thumbnail.gif\" alt=\"skymap_cometSWAN.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Michael,<\/p>\n<p>I know you are an insomniac and early-morning riser, so If you have some clear skies in the next few pre-dawn mornings, look up with binocs near the Big Dipper just east of the last star in the handle. <\/p>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap061004.html> Comet SWAN <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quoted from APOD:<\/p>\n<p>A newly discovered comet has brightened enough to be visible this week with binoculars. The <http :\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap050904.html>picturesque comet is already becoming a favored target for northern sky imagers. <\/http><http :\/\/www.astrostudio.at\/Astrofotos\/astrofotos.php?k_id=69>Pictured above just last week, Comet SWAN showed a bright blue-green coma and an impressive tail. <\/http><http :\/\/cometography.com\/lcomets\/2006m4.html>Comet C\/2006 M4 (SWAN) was discovered in June in public images from the <\/http><http :\/\/www.fmi.fi\/research_space\/space_7.html>Solar Wind Anisotropies (SWAN) instrument of NASA and <\/http><http :\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ESA>ESA&#8217;s Sun-orbiting <http :\/\/sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov\/>SOHO spacecraft. <\/http><http :\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Comet>Comet SWAN, near magnitude six, will be <\/http><http :\/\/spaceweather.com\/images2006\/04oct06\/skymap_north.gif>visible with binoculars in the northeastern sky not far from the Big Dipper over the next few days before dawn. <\/http><http :\/\/www.aerith.net\/comet\/catalog\/2006M4\/2006M4.html>The comet is expected to reach its peak brightness this week. Passing its closest to the Sun two days ago, <\/http><http :\/\/ssd.jpl.nasa.gov\/sbdb.cgi?ID=dK06M040;orb=1;cov=0#orb>Comet SWAN and will be at its closest to the Earth toward the end of this month.<\/p>\n<p>ed\/rakkity<br \/>\n<\/http><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael, I know you are an insomniac and early-morning riser, so If you have some clear skies in the next few pre-dawn mornings, look up with binocs near the Big Dipper just east of the last star in the handle. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2006\/10\/04\/comet-swan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rakkity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}