{"id":131158,"date":"2021-11-24T09:43:43","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T17:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/how-when-and-where-to-see-comet-leonard-the-ultimate-guide-to-seeing-the-christmas-comet-in-december-and-on-christmas-day"},"modified":"2021-11-24T09:43:43","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T17:43:43","slug":"how-when-and-where-to-see-comet-leonard-the-ultimate-guide-to-seeing-the-christmas-comet-in-december-and-on-christmas-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/how-when-and-where-to-see-comet-leonard-the-ultimate-guide-to-seeing-the-christmas-comet-in-december-and-on-christmas-day","title":{"rendered":"How, When And Where To See Comet Leonard: The Ultimate Guide To Seeing The \u2018Christmas Comet\u2019 In December And On Christmas Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-when-and-where-to-see-comet-leonard-the-ultimate-guide-to-seeing-the-christmas-comet-in-december-and-on-christmas-day.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have you seen C\/2021 A1 (Leonard) \u2014a.k.a. \u201cComet Leonard\u201d\u2014yet? Discovered on January 3, 2021 by Greg Leonard, a senior research specialist at Arizona\u2019s Mount Lemmon Observatory, Comet Leonard is potentially going to become an object visible to binocular and even naked eyes. It\u2019s predicted to reach around magnitude 4 or brighter in December 2021 (for the latest, follow it on Twitter).<\/p>\n<p>It will get closest to the Earth to be super-bright on December 12, 2021, but by then it\u2019s going to be fairly low in the sky. So your best chance is to get up early\u2014about 90 minutes before sunrise\u2014during early December and look east.<\/p>\n<p>Arm yourself with either a small telescope or any pair of binoculars to maximize your chances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you seen C\/2021 A1 (Leonard) \u2014a.k.a. \u201cComet Leonard\u201d\u2014yet? Discovered on January 3, 2021 by Greg Leonard, a senior research specialist at Arizona\u2019s Mount Lemmon Observatory, Comet Leonard is potentially going to become an object visible to binocular and even naked eyes. It\u2019s predicted to reach around magnitude 4 or brighter in December 2021 (for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}