Best viewing of comet will come in mid-March

By Mike Shanahan
Bishop Museum

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Feb 24, 2013

~~<p>By Comet C/2011 L4 makes an appearance just after sunset this month.</p>
<p>The comet was initially spotted using the Pan-STARRS telescope on Haleakala on Maui on June 6, 2011. Pan-STARRS stands for Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System, a wide-field imaging facility. Follow-up images were taken with the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Mauna Kea, and the discovery was announced by Richard Wainscoat of the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy.</p>
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By Comet C/2011 L4 makes an appearance just after sunset this month.

The comet was initially spotted using the Pan-STARRS telescope on Haleakala on Maui on June 6, 2011. Pan-STARRS stands for Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System, a wide-field imaging facility. Follow-up images were taken with the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Mauna Kea, and the discovery was announced by Richard Wainscoat of the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy. Login for more...