new comet discovered -"brightest in history"?

This was discovered last week; i can't imagine a celestial body oushining the Moon, vissible in day time?! scary

http://news.nationalge​ographic.com …-ison-science-space-moon/

"..1000 times brighter than Venus"
http://www.cbc.ca …t-discovered-visible.html

I'll have to buy a pair of dark glasses!

And so the hype begins

Assuming that it even survives, it's only going to be record-setting-ly bright for a day or so when it's so close to the sun that you won't be able to see it easily at all.

But at least it should be decent naked-eye brightness for a little while, like nothing visible from the northern hemisphere since Hale-Bopp, and hopefully provide a nice long tail display for us like Lovejoy did in the southern hemisphere last year.

It's gotta make first . This is not the first time one like this has been spotted only to turnnout and burnout before it came a good comet . November 2013 is over a yr from now . Alot can happen between now and then .

Maybe the Mayans forgot to carry the one and the end of the world is a year later than previously advertized.

Hopefully it will make a good sky target for astrophotography. The way things work for me, it will probably only be visible in the southern hemisphere like Lovejoy was

It's just been updated into Starry Night's database and here's what it's looking like.

In November it'll be a morning object, rising three hours before the sun on Nov 7, two hours before on the 17th and one hour before on the 23rd. Whatever tail there is will be pointing up and to the right for us in the continental U.S.

There's a great photo-op on the 23rd when it'll be less than 10 degrees from both Saturn and Mercury, but maybe in some twilight by then.

By this time it's screaming in towards the sun and passes around it on Nov 28.

Assuming it survives, it becomes an evening object after perihelion but departs to the right (north) at a very low angle so it's all the way to Dec 21 before it's setting even a hour after the sun. Right at the end of the year it becomes circumpolar and passes almost right by the north star on January 6.

If I got all that right it looks like it'll be a better morning object as it comes in but it might be brighter after getting baked by the sun.

I remember as a little kid in 1965 seeing Ikeya–Seki just before sunrise and it made an impression that never went away. We've had some real comet busts over the decades (Austin) but let's hope for the best from this one.

There will also be comet 2P/Encke (Mag 5) sitting between this comet and the two planets on that morning.

Looks like it's a better morning object than evening object after perihelion. It'll rise rapidly in the sky in the days afterwards. IF it holds together after passing the sun.