NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2013 Nov 30, 19:31 -0800
Sent from my iPhone
I assembled the latest images into a quickie video. It's clear that this is now just a rapidly expanding and rapidly fading cloud of dust. It's now unlikely that backyard observers will see anything at all.
The video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxQgu1w-4_cNavigation... how do I bring some navigation into this... Aha! To the lower left of the Sun, there is a bright star. In fact, it's one of the 57 modern navigation stars.. Which one is it? And how do you know? And can you spot the Messier object (a globular cluster) close to it? :)
-FER
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