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PIA19103: Finder Chart for Viewing Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy)
On clear nights in January 2015, comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) is visible in the Taurus region of the sky to observers using binoculars. This chart indicates where to look for it on different dates during the month.
 Target Name:  Comet
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  NEOWISE 
 Product Size:  1280 x 720 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  IPAC-Caltech 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA19103.tif (2.766 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA19103.jpg (35.65 kB)  

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On clear nights in January 2015, comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) is visible in the Taurus region of the sky to observers using binoculars. This chart indicates where to look for it on different dates during the month.

For more information about NEOWISE (the Near-Earth Object Wide-field Survey Explorer), see http://neowise.ipac.caltech.edu.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the NEOWISE mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Space Dynamics Laboratory in Logan, Utah, built the science instrument. Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. of Boulder, Colo., built the spacecraft. Science operations and data processing take place at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Caltech manages JPL for NASA.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:
2015-01-13