Tag Archives: comet

Feb
26
2009

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 [...]

By Steve Dangerfield | Posted in hoW | Also tagged , | Comments (0)
Sep
06
2008

What does the P mean in a comet’s name?

Came across a P/ prefix in a comet’s name and didn’t know what it was so I did a google search and found the following Wikipedia page; essentially a prefix is added to indicate the nature of the comet:
P/ = Periodic comet i.e. it’s orbit passes earth periodically
C/ = Non-periodic comet
X/ = No reliable orbit could be calculated
Am I missing something in [...]

By Steve Dangerfield | Posted in What | Also tagged | Comments (0)