The Devil Comet: coming to our skies this Sunday

The Devil Comet (called 12P/Pons-Brooks) is passing by Earth (only once every 71 years).

It is called this as it has two bright tails trailing it as it shoots into space (look like devil’s horns).

If you are at all interested, the comet will be closest to the sun, or at its perihelion, on SUNDAY and should be visible to the naked eye, but people should see it in the sky over the next week.

Anzac Day is supposed to be a great night to see it.

After the setting sun in the evening, look west and the comet will be low in the sky but hopefully glowing. But if you have a pair of binoculars, even small ones, it will make it great.

Hopefully with a clear night, and a dark spot from which to view, you should be able to spot it.

It will be visible in the early hours of April 22.

Venus is the bright star in the morning sky — if you can see where Venus is, look below, and the comet will be somewhere in that line between the sun and Venus.

“Star Walk” or “Night Sky” Apps will “show you exactly where it is”.

Thanks to the science department at Korumburra Secondary College for this awesome info and for the Korumburra Landcare Group for their great facebook post this morning which we have published here.