Wow! Tonight's the night comet PAN-STAR will be visible in the northern hemisphere weather permitting. Our family in the southern hemisphere have already been enjoying the show for awhile and have taken some awesome pictures that are posted below.

Enjoy the view! The comet should be visible with the naked eye, but this ground team member will be using binoculars and hoping for a clear night sky.

In case you missed it check out this chart from weather.com.

The NASA graphic shows the progression of viewing Pan-STARRS in the days ahead.

weather.com. 3/8/13, Miriam Kramer.

'"Go out and, in the evening sky, especially the first week of March, look to the west," Eicher said of Pan-STARRS. "It will be one of the brightest things in the sky. It will pop out. It will look like a blob, a fuzzy star, and you should be able to see a tail sticking upward from horizon."

The comet should be its brightest on March 10, but scientists aren't sure that it will brighten the way they expect, Eicher said. The ratio of dirt to ice in the comet's nucleus could affect the way the comet brightens, and scientists are not sure of Pan-STARR's exact composition, added Eicher."'

  weather.com. 3/8/13, Miriam Kramer.

More pictures of comet PAN-STARR

This photo, taken in early March, shows comet Pan-STARRS as seen from Queenstown, New Zealand

As you can see this comet is making quite a display in the western night sky.

The path of comet Pan-STARRS

New Zealand stargazer John Drummond captured this image of comet Pan-STARRS on Jan. 23, 2013

6 Surprising Facts About Comet Pan-STARR

1) You Will Never See It Again

Comet Pan-STARRS, officially , has a long elliptical orbit around the sun. Really long. The cosmic ball of dirt and ice takes more than 100 million years to complete a full cycle around the star, according to astronomers with the McDonald Observatory at the University of Texas, Austin.

Comet Pan-STARRS was discovered in June 2011 by a team of astronomers using the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (or PANSTARRS) telescope in Hawaii.

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