Look out for jaques

[ZodiaK]

On Thursday the 21st of August, the comet Jacques will be magnitude +2.00, and situated just below the leftmost star in Cassiopeia. It will be visible in northern latitudes. I know I'll be on the lookout, and so should you!

[K^2]

As usual, weather promises to be cloudy around here. Fortunately, I'm moving to a much sunnier place in a week. Unfortunately, it'll be too late for this particular comet.

[KerbMav]

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Tell your boss your religion demands to watch one celestial phenomen before the end of summer and take a day off.

[cantab]

Sky and telescope are predicting a much fainter magnitude 7, http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/observing-news/happy-times-comet-watchers-08202014/ . Too faint for the naked eye but within the reach of binoculars or a small scope.

[StuntMax]

Cool... and conveniently, i'm on night shift tonight and weather forecast is clear

but my favorite sky chart reports a puny +11.0 magnitude, where d'you get the +2.0?

[ZodiaK]

From the sky at night magazine...

I didn't see it last night.

[PakledHostage]

I just got back inside after shooting some frames of that part of the sky. I still have to stack them but I can tell already that they they won't be anything to write home about. Even so, in advance of stacking my frames, I wonder about a little red dot that I see in every frame at about the location where comet Jacques is supposed to be. Has anyone else been out to shoot photos of it this evening? My wife suggested that maybe the red dot was Rudolf since we can see blitzen, hear donner and we're looking for comet...) Does anyone else pick up the distinct red "star" at the expected location of the comet? Or does my camera maybe just have some bad pixels?