Asteroid-Turned-Comet 2013 UQ4 Catalina Brightens: How to See it This Summer

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Comet C/2013 UQ4 Catalina as imaged from the iTelescope observatory at Siding Spring, Australia. Credit: Novichonok and Prystavski.

Though ISON may have fizzled in early 2014, we’ve certainly had a bevy of binocular comets to track this year. Thus far in 2014, we’ve had comets R1 Lovejoy, K1 PanSTARRS, and E2 Jacques reach binocular visibility. Now, and asteroid-turned-comet is set to put on a fine show this summer for northern hemisphere observers.(…)
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