A quick reminder that this weekend should be decent viewing of comet ISON. It will appear just before dawn, and can be seen between the planets Saturn and Mercury. Later next week it will pass the Sun, and if it survives that encounter should be viewable again next week as begins its journey out again.
For those who are not aware, Comet ISON (also known as Comet Nevski–Novichonok) is a comet discovered in September 2012 which will graze the Sun sometime in the next week (predicted to be at...
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