There is a comet now visible in the sky if
you want to get up before the sun in the morning.
You should look to the east just before morning twilight begins.
Find Venus and look somewhat above and to the left
(north) of Venus toward and below the constellation
Delphinus. You will need binoculars and it will look
like a faint fuzzball with an even fainter tail pointing
upward.
According to Sky and Telescope Magazine, "Each morning, Comet
Pojmanski will rise a little higher and
become easier to see from northern latitudes, but at the
same time it's fading. On March 1, it's only 8° above
the horizon at the start of dawn as seen from 40° north
latitude, but the comet gains altitude every day: to
about 20° on March 8. By then, however, it will be
starting to fade, probably dimming to magnitude 6.2 by
March 11 and losing 0.1 magnitude per day thereafter."
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