blog.cron.com-3/5/13, Eric Berger
Today’s the day the Comet PanSTARRS makes its closest approach to Earth but we can’t see it from North America just yet. So far the comet has only been visible to the southern hemisphere, but that will change by Thursday, when it may be visible near the sun during sunset.
Astronomers measure the brightness of objects in the sky by using a magnitude scale, and they now believe this comet could reach an apparent magnitude of +1 — which is not brilliant, but not too bad, either. This puts the comet about on par with Antares, a star that is visible in the nighttime sky.
In any case it should be visible with binoculars.
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