Travelers in the Night Eps. 315 & 316: See Comets & Weird Centaur

Dr. Al Grauer hosts. Dr. Albert D. Grauer ( @Nmcanopus ) is an observational asteroid hunting astronomer. Dr. Grauer retired from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2006. travelersinthenight.org

From January 2017 & August 2024.

Today's 2 topics:

- 2017 will be (was) a good year to view comets with your unaided eye or a pair of binoculars.

- My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Richard Kowalski was surprised to find a moving point of light on some his images which was more than 50 times brighter than a typical Earth approaching object he observes. He was even more amazed when it was not cataloged as a known object and he reported his observations to the Minor Planet Center. 

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