Why Astronomy » hoW http://whyastronomy.co.uk Answers to the Why What Where When hoW and Who of Astronomy; thoughts and links to Astronomy content. Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:01:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 How to Track Comet Lulin with Stellarium http://whyastronomy.co.uk/2009/02/26/how-to-track-comet-lulin-with-stellarium/ http://whyastronomy.co.uk/2009/02/26/how-to-track-comet-lulin-with-stellarium/#comments Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:32:56 +0000 Steve Dangerfield http://whyastronomy.co.uk/?p=47 SHARETHIS.addEntry( { title: "How to Track Comet Lulin with Stellarium", url: "http://whyastronomy.co.uk/2009/02/26/how-to-track-comet-lulin-with-stellarium/" } ); ]]> Caught a tweet from @mattjones yesterday pointing to a great post on his blog that shows you how to configure Stellarium to allow you to follow comet Lulin.  Comets are unpredictable objects and so we can’t expect Stellarium to predict their course through the solar system; especially the one’s we’ve never seen before!

I’ve often wondered if Stellarium could be configured to help track comets but never looked into it; now I know how :-)   Just need the clouds to part and then we’ll see if it really works.  Failing that, here’s an animated gif tweeted by @astrophoto.

Until the next post… Clear Skies!

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