If you are a night owl like moi, then take a pair of binoculars outside and look at the moon.. It is a beautiful piece of cheese tonight...
Take a look to the right of the bottom corner and you will see a yellowish blob of a star. This could be the new comet that has erupted 17P Holmes. It is in the constellation Perseus, but I couldn't show you Perseus any better than the Man in the Moon. The key point, is that the comet is growing larger, and may be devolping a tail, but not a visible one yet, and the colour of it is a yellow green, and it is as bright as any star in the Big Dipper and is now superseding the brightness of Jupitor...all in one night...so keep your eye on the night sky. See Spaceweather.com for some real photos of the comet, and a star map.
... You'd have todouble-click my photo to see the surrounding stars, which look like tiny pin pricks . Maybe I'll get out thee tri-pod ,one of these nights...
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