Comet Holmes!

[Pheebs]

As some of you already know, I'm a wee bit of a lover of the night sky (anyone remember joining me flat out on my back searching frantically for shooting stars recently?! )

Last week wee lil Comet Holmes decided to erupt and get muuuuuuch much brighter (rumour has it by a "factor of a million" from the bbc website!) This means us people with no expensive telescope equipment can see it with the nekky eye! YAY!

So, at Mister Fakeysnakeys last night I decided to look out for it and somehow I managed to spot it (without having a clue where it was) in the middle of the sky! Dead chuffed I was!

Keep an eye out for it tonight! I don't know whether people will get as excited as I did (you may think "pah, so what a fuzz in the sky" but but that fuzz is EXPLODING! It's ERUPTING and and bits are flying off it at super dooper speeds!! Like *WHOOSH*GONE! And and ... well I think it's exciting!)

Here's a lil map to help people see it:



(to help people more <--- that way on the map is the plough/big dipper! You should be able to spot Cassiopeia easily - looks like a big big BIG W on it's side )