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Originally Posted by Suzy
Hi Robert, thank you for that. I have Sky Safari as well, and the comet does show up there, but it gives me limited information i.e. how far a comet is from a bright star that will help me to find it.
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Suzy,
Locate and centre the comet (or any target for that matter) in Sky Safari, and then zoom out if necessary to get a wide enough field of view to be useful for star hopping - but don't pan the view. Tap on a nearby bright star that you can use as a star-hopping aid, but don't Centre on it, and then tap on the Object Info icon. Near the bottom of the the left-hand-side information bar, it will show the Angular Separation from the Sun, from your selected target (eg Comet 252P/LINEAR), and from the Chart Centre (which will be the same separation if you don't pan the view).
E.g. as I wrote this (3:00 pm April 15), it tells me that Comet 252P/LINEAR is 3 deg 14 min 44 sec from Magnitude 2.76 Cebalrai (Beta Ophiuchi).
You can repeat this for a few other star-hopping stars, and it should get you sorted pretty well.
The other useful trick is to have Sky Safari show a circle for your finder-scope's FoV, which you can use to simulate what you should see as you star hop using the finder.
Hope this helps!