Comet Wirtanen still on show

All being well, as this issue hits the newsstands Comet 46P/Wirtanen will be putting on a show as it climbs higher in the December skies (find out more in this month’s Sky Guide on page 52). Come 2019, though, the comet will hopefully still be visible in binoculars. At the start of January it will be in the constellation of Lynx, but will move into Ursa Major on 12 January. By then it should have faded conspicuously, but since it will be high in the sky it may, nonetheless, be an interesting target for dedicated imagers and observers.