Hi All,
I've been recently trying to find the Schwassmann Wachman 3 comet without any luck
L. It is currently supposed to be located in the Cetus constellation of which Diphda is the brightest (I think)
So up I get at 5 this morning (about -2) trying to find Cetus. I am viewing from my backyard in Canberra so viewing isn't the best, but I managed to find Pegasus without too much problem and off to the right of that just above the horizon I found what I believe to be the Pleiades, the brightest thing in the sky that time of morning.
So with those two references, off I searched, by eye and finderscope to find SW3. After an hour and a half, to my frustration I could not for the life of me find what I was confident to be Cetus, specifically Diphda.
As you can tell I am very new to star jumping my way across the sky and determining exactly how far things are apart.
The star maps I am using are the ones in the Astronomy 2006 Australia I got from the IIS star party at Lostock and also from:-
http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncg...49.217&ew=East
With the online star map I tried both the horizon view and the sky map view. Including varying the star intensities visible to try to match what I could actually see with the naked eye, still without luck.
If anyone could please give me some idea of where I should be looking (straight up, etc) or techniques to use that would be great. I don't have a planisphere yet but am intending to get one soon.
Thanks,
KISA