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WATCHING THE SKIES: March 30 – April 5 | The new moon
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Brad Klein reviews upcoming astronomical highlights with Bethlehem’s ‘Backyard Astronomy Guy,’ Marty McGuire. This week, how to spot the first traces of the young crescent moon that marks the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. For astronomers, the ‘new’ moon generally refers to the moment when the moon is directly between the sun and Earth. At that moment, it is invisible to observers on Earth, except during an eclipse of the sun.
WATCHING THE SKIES: March 23 – 29 | In search of dark skies
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Brad Klein reviews upcoming astronomical highlights with Bethlehem’s "Backyard Astronomy Guy," Marty McGuire. This week, Marty and Brad talk about the No. 1 challenge to stargazing — finding truly dark skies. To escape urban light pollution you will need to leave the Lehigh Valley.
WATCHING THE SKIES: March 16-22 | Spring at last
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Brad Klein reviews upcoming astronomical highlights with Bethlehem’s ‘Backyard Astronomy Guy,’ Marty McGuire. This week, they look forward to the arrival of ‘astronomical spring’ on the morning of March 20. Meteorological spring comprises the months of March, April, and May. But an astronomical definition can be much more precise. “Thursday, March 20, at 5:02 a.m. is the actual time of the spring equinox,” McGuire said.
Saucon Park eagle whose mate died of bird flu shares nest again
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — A bald eagle whose longtime companion died of bird flu apparently has a new mate. For at least eight years, a pair of bald eagles used an old railroad tower in Saucon Park in Bethlehem as a nesting site. They added hundreds of sticks to construct a massive aerie overlooking a recently built Wawa convenience store and, more importantly, the nearby Saucon Creek and Lehigh River — both potential sources of food for young eaglets.
WATCHING THE SKIES: March 9-15 | A tale of two eclipses
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Brad Klein reviews upcoming astronomical highlights with Bethlehem’s ‘Backyard Astronomy Guy,’ Marty McGuire. This week, a surprise twist on the total lunar eclipse visible from the Lehigh Valley in the early morning hours of Friday, March 14th. “You’re going to lose some sleep over this one,” according to McGuire. This lunar eclipse reaches totality 2:58 a.m. EDT locally. The total event stretches from 1:09 to 4:47 a.m. as the moon passes through the Earth’s shadow.
WATCHING THE SKIES: March 2-8 |The planetary parade
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Brad Klein reviews upcoming astronomical highlights with Bethlehem’s "Backyard Astronomy Guy," Marty McGuire. This week, a look at the eight planets in our solar system, and what it takes to see them in the night sky. The last week of February has been touted online and in the media as a "parade of planets," but seeing planets overhead, and roughly in line with each other, is neither rare nor unusual.
WATCHING THE SKIES: Feb. 23-29 | Earthshine
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Brad Klein reviews upcoming astronomical highlights with Bethlehem’s ‘Backyard Astronomy Guy,’ Marty McGuire.
WATCHING THE SKIES: Feb. 16-22 | 2 robotic landers on their way to the moon
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Brad Klein reviews upcoming astronomical highlights with Bethlehem’s "Backyard Astronomy Guy," Marty McGuire. This week, a look at a NASA mission that is on the way to a moon landing, but very different from the Apollo missions a half century ago. Both are robotic missions with no humans aboard. And both are taking their time to get from Earth to the moon.
Success at Shankweiler's: Lauren McChesney reflects on reaching new drive-in movie audiences
NORTH WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. — In a world saturated with streaming services and rising prices, a local drive-in theater is persevering — and thriving. This week on radio station WLVR 91.3 's "Morning Edition," host Brad Klein interviews Lauren McChesney, co-owner of Shankweiler's Drive-In Movie Theatre in Orefield. McChesney, along with partner Matt McClanahan, bought the property in 2022. "After I met [Matt], we started traveling around and looking at other drive-in theaters.
WATCHING THE SKIES: February 9-15 | Protecting the moon
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Brad Klein reviews upcoming astronomical highlights with Bethlehem’s ‘Backyard Astronomy Guy,’ Marty McGuire. This week, a look at efforts to preserve the artifacts that remain on the moon’s surface. Earlier this year, the World Monuments Fund placed the moon as one of 25 endangered sites on its World Monuments Watch list for 2025.
WATCHING THE SKIES: February 2-6 | Mars, meet Moon
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Brad Klein reviews upcoming astronomical highlights with Bethlehem’s ‘Backyard Astronomy Guy,’ Marty McGuire. This week, they look back to last month’s occultation of Mars, by the Moon. And, look forward to a close encounter between those two celestial objects in the night sky, next Sunday, February 9. An ‘occultation’ is when one object passes in front of another in the night sky. Mars has been shining brightly all Winter in the evening sky.
WATCHING THE SKIES: Jan. 26-Feb. 1 | The Pleiades star cluster
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Brad Klein reviews upcoming astronomical highlights with Bethlehem’s "Backyard Astronomy Guy," Marty McGuire. The Pleiades is a prominent winter asterism, or group of stars that form a recognizable pattern in the night sky. But unlike typical constellations, whose stars may be light years from each other, the Pleiades is a "star cluster," a group of celestial objects bound together by gravity. It can be hard to see in an area with a great deal of light pollution.
WATCHING THE SKIES: January 19-25 | Orion the Hunter
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Brad Klein reviews upcoming astronomical highlights with Bethlehem’s "Backyard Astronomy Guy," Marty McGuire. This week: A look at the most prominent constellation in the winter sky, Orion the Hunter. “I look forward to finding this one every winter,” McGuire said. And I feel the same way. It’s prominent in the southern sky during winter evenings in the Lehigh Valley.
WATCHING THE SKIES: Dec. 8 - 14 | Venus and Jupiter dominate the evening sky
BETHLEHEM, Pa. - Brad Klein reviews upcoming astronomical highlights with Bethlehem’s "Backyard Astronomy Guy," Marty McGuire. This week, they discuss the two brightest objects in the evening sky. Neither are stars. Just after sunset, Venus is shining brightly in the Western sky. “It's beautifully bright at this time of year, visible in the West after sunset,” says McGuire. “It's the brightest object out there.” At this time, Venus is serving as the "evening star," although, in fact, it is a planet.
WATCHING THE SKIES: Dec. 1-7 | NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will ‘touch the sun’ on Christmas Eve
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Brad Klein reviews upcoming astronomical highlights with Bethlehem’s "Backyard Astronomy Guy," Marty McGuire. This week, a look at a NASA robotic mission exploring the inner reaches of our solar system. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will "touch the sun" on Christmas Eve McGuire says. It will make its closest approach to the star at the center of our solar system on Dec. 24, a record-setting achievement for the robotic spacecraft that launched in summer 2018.
WATCHING THE SKIES: Nov. 24-30 - Spica disappears behind the waning crescent Moon
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Brad Klein reviews the week’s astronomical highlights with Bethlehem’s ‘Backyard Astronomy Guy,’ Marty McGuire. In the early hours of Wednesday morning, November 27, the bright star Spica will be covered by the waning crescent moon. It’s a so-called lunar occultation, as our moon blocks the view of the brightest star in the constellation, Virgo. Spica is one of the twenty brightest objects in the night sky.
Pulling the lever: Remembering the sounds of mechanical voting machines
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Knowing that I would be busy on Election Day, like millions of Pennsylvanians, I carefully made out my ballot well ahead of time. I filled those small ovals with care. And I dropped my vote into the drop-off box inside Bethlehem City Hall. I had done my civic duty, but it did not carry the emotional weight of my earliest voting experiences. Those took place in the 1970s when, as a child, my mother took me with her to vote in Cincinnati, Ohio, where I grew up.
Watching the Skies: Nov. 3 – 9 — One year of cosmic conversations
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Brad Klein has been reviewing the week’s astronomical highlights with Bethlehem’s ‘Backyard Astronomy Guy,’ Marty McGuire for just over a year for WLVR News and LehighValleyNews.com. This week, he reflects on a year of ‘cosmic conversation’ about the planets and stars. I have learned a lot about astronomy and stargazing in my weekly conversations with amateur astronomer, Marty McGuire.
WATCHING THE SKIES | Oct. 27 - Nov. 2 | A new moon for Halloween
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Brad Klein reviews the week’s astronomical highlights with Bethlehem’s ‘Backyard Astronomy Guy,’ Marty McGuire. This week, a discussion of the ‘new moon’ which occurs this Thursday night, on Halloween. In some contexts, the phrase, “new moon” can refer to the first sliver that becomes visible from Earth. This is important in some religious observances, for example. But the astronomical new moon is the point when the moon is most nearly between the Sun and the Earth.
WATCHING THE SKIES |Oct. 20 - 26: A good week for viewing planets
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Brad Klein reviews the week’s astronomical highlights with Bethlehem’s ‘Backyard Astronomy Guy,’ Marty McGuire. This week is a good one to spot the planets that are visible in the night sky, both in evenings and early mornings. In the evenings, just after sunset, the brightest object in the night sky this week is Venus, playing the role of ‘evening star’.
WATCHING THE SKIES | Oct 13-19: The Hunter’s Moon
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Brad Klein reviews the week’s astronomical highlights with Bethlehem’s ‘Backyard Astronomy Guy,’ Marty McGuire. This week, a look at the October moon. Watch for the full moon on Wednesday and Thursday nights, October 16and 17. The October full moon is known as the Hunter’s moon. This moon also is a 'supermoon', a bit closer to Earth than average, and thus a bit bigger in the night sky. And this supermoon is actually, the largest of the year.
LISTEN: Comedian Paula Poundstone, performing at Musikfest Cafe, on WLVR
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Comedian Paula Poundstone will perform at Musikfest Cafe at ArtsQuest Center on Friday, Oct. 11. In advance of the show, she spoke with WLVR-FM’s Brad Klein about her approach to comedy and her day job as a panelist on the weekly NPR news quiz show "Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me." In a recent video post on the social media platform X, Poundstone says there is “no need” for childish jokes comparing Bethlehem with the biblical birthplace of Jesus.
WATCHING THE SKIES | Oct 6-12: The comet that last passed by Earth 80,000 years ago
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Brad Klein reviews the week’s astronomical highlights with Bethlehem’s "Backyard Astronomy Guy," Marty McGuire. This week, our inner solar system has a visitor. It’s Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS. It’s been visible through telescopes since its discovery last year by observers in China and South Africa. But now that it is near its closest approach to our sun, casual stargazers may get a chance to see this visitor from the far outer solar system.
WATCHING THE SKIES | Sept. 30 - Oct 5: |NASA Europa Clipper
BETHLEHEM, Pa., — Brad Klein reviews the week’s astronomical highlights with Bethlehem’s ‘Backyard Astronomy Guy,’ Marty McGuire. This week, a look at NASA’s ambitious, robotic space mission, Europa Clipper, which could launch as early as October 10. Europa has long been an object of intense curiosity among our solar system’s planets and moons.
WATCHING THE SKIES | Sept. 23-29 | Lehigh Valley Space Fest
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Brad Klein reviews the week’s astronomical highlights with Bethlehem’s ‘Backyard Astronomy Guy,’ Marty McGuire. This week, they look forward to Lehigh Valley Space Fest, which takes place Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 12-13, at Lafayette College in Easton. McGuire is a co-founder of the event with NASA Solar System Ambassador Todd Sullivan. Their mission: “To bring space down to Earth,” according to the event’s website.
WATCHING THE SKIES | Sept. 16-22 |The Autumnal Equinox
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Brad Klein reviews the week’s astronomical highlights with Bethlehem’s ‘Backyard Astronomy Guy,’ Marty McGuire. This Sunday, September 22, is the start of ‘astronomical autumn’ as the Earth reaches equinox in its journey around the sun. The seasons on Earth are a result of the planet’s tilted axis, combined with its orbit. And Sunday morning, our planet passes through the point in space, “when the sun is vertical at the equator.
WATCHING THE SKIES | Sept. 9-15 | Good views of Saturn
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Brad Klein reviews the week’s astronomical highlights with Bethlehem’s ‘Backyard Astronomy Guy,’ Marty McGuire. This week should be a good one for viewing the planet Saturn. For one thing, it rises in the east-southeast, just after sunset. And it’s visible for the entire night if clouds permit clear viewing. “It’s a fun time for observing Saturn because you can watch it all night long. It will reach its peak altitude in the sky around midnight.
WATCHING THE SKIES - September 2-8: The guests who could not leave
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Brad Klein reviews the week’s astronomical highlights with Bethlehem’s ‘Backyard Astronomy Guy,’ Marty McGuire. This week, we catch up on the news from the International Space Station, where the seven crew members have been hosting two unexpected guests for months. Astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams, flew to the ISS in June, but NASA has been troubleshooting problems with the Boeing Starliner that carried them to the station ever since.
WATCHING THE SKIES | Aug. 26 - Sept. 1 | A conjunction of stars, planets and moon
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Brad Klein reviews the week’s astronomical highlights with Bethlehem’s ‘Backyard Astronomy Guy,’ Marty McGuire. This week, a striking conjunction in the late night sky may catch your eye in the predawn hours of Tuesday, August 27. The planets Jupiter and Mars will share a small patch of the eastern sky with the crescent moon, and the star Aldebaran. The best view for the Lehigh Valley will be in the eastern sky between 2 a.m. and dawn Tuesday morning.
WATCHING THE SKIES | Aug. 19-25 | The Sturgeon Supermoon
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Brad Klein reviews the week’s astronomical highlights with Bethlehem’s ‘Backyard Astronomy Guy,’ Marty McGuire. This week, the full moon is on display the evening of Monday, August 19. The full moon of each month has one or more traditional names, and the August full moon is known as ‘the Sturgeon Moon.’ This full moon also has the distinction of being a Supermoon. That’s a full moon that is seen at a point in its elliptical orbit that places it a bit closer to Earth.
REVIEW: ZZ Top, closing Musikfest, still sounds sharp-dressed after 50 years
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Musikfest wrapped up Sunday with an Olympic dismount that pretty much stuck the landing. Rock 'n' roll road veterans ZZ Top brought its time-tested Texas blues-driven sound to South Bethlehem’s Steel Stage for the final headline show of the 10-day festival.
WATCHING THE SKIES | Aug. 12-18 | The changeable view of Saturn
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Brad Klein reviews the week’s astronomical highlights with Bethlehem’s ‘Backyard Astronomy Guy,’ Marty McGuire. This week, a reminder that tonight is a peak one for viewing the annual Perseid meteor shower. It’s also becoming more favorable as the summer goes on for viewing the planets in the evening sky. McGuire said that one of his favorite objects in the night sky is the ringed planet, Saturn. “It’s the first object I saw through my first telescope.
WATCHING THE SKIES | Aug. 5-11 | A full house on the International Space Station
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Brad Klein reviews the week’s astronomical highlights with Bethlehem’s ‘Backyard Astronomy Guy,’ Marty McGuire. This week an update on the International Space Station, which is currently hosting two ‘extra’ American astronauts. There are nine in the international crew aboard the space station as of Monday, but Americans Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore were only expected to stay a week or so, and so far they’ve spent about two months in space.
WATCHING THE SKIES | July 29 | A preview of the Perseid meteor shower
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Brad Klein reviews the week’s astronomical highlights with Bethlehem’s ‘Backyard Astronomy Guy,’ Marty McGuire. This week a look forward to a highlight of mid-August, the Perseid meteor shower. One of the best chances to ‘catch a falling star’ is the Perseid meteor shower. And the evening of Aug. 12 and early morning of Aug. 13 should be the peak night for this annual event.
WATCHING THE SKIES | July 22-28, 2024 | Pluto lines up with Earth and sun
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Brad Klein reviews the week’s astronomical highlights with Bethlehem’s ‘Backyard Astronomy Guy,’ Marty McGuire. This week the dwarf planet, Pluto. It would be an ideal week to view Pluto from Earth, due to its position in its orbit. But sadly, it's too far away, and too small for casual viewing. On Tuesday, July 23, Pluto will be ‘in opposition’ to Earth, according to McGuire. That means that “the sun, Earth, and Pluto are in a line”, said McGuire.
WATCHING THE SKIES - July 15-21, 2024 - The ‘Buck’s Moon’
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Brad Klein reviews the week’s astronomical highlights with Bethlehem’s ‘Backyard Astronomy Guy,’ Marty McGuire. This week they talk about the Earth’s moon, which will be full Sunday. Traditionally each full moon is named, and the July moon is sometimes known as the Buck Moon. Many confuse the phrases, ‘dark side of the moon’ and ‘the far side of the moon’.
WATCHING THE SKIES | July 8-14, 2024 | A look at the ice giant planet, Uranus
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Brad Klein reviews the week’s astronomical highlights with Bethlehem’s ‘Backyard Astronomy Guy,’ Marty McGuire. This week a look at the ice giant, Uranus. Uranus is theoretically visible this week in the predawn sky. The good news is that it appears close to Mars in the morning sky. The bad news is that even with a telescope, Uranus is a hard planet to see from Earth. “Uranus is a hard planet to see because it's so far away.
WATCHING THE SKIES - July 1-7, 2024 - Marty at Bethlehem Area Public Library
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Brad Klein reviews the week’s astronomical highlights with Bethlehem’s ‘Backyard Astronomy Guy,’ Marty McGuire. This week: a preview of Marty’s presentation, Saturday, July 6, at 2 p.m. at the main branch of the Bethlehem Public Library. The subject will be Mars, and McGuire says that he’ll focus on two NASA rovers that remain in operation on the surface of the Red Planet. The older of the two is named Curiosity. And Perseverance is the more recent mission, launched in 2020.
One bluegrass banjo legend to salute another in EarlJam, Sunday in Bethlehem
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — EarlJam, scheduled Sunday at Godfrey Daniels, will not be a typical tribute concert, in which a group of musicians clone a more famous artist and run through their greatest hits. It will be more of an homage, from one bluegrass banjo great to another. The Earl in the title of veteran banjo player Tony Trischka’s concert and newly released album is Earl Scruggs, who, along with Bill Monroe, created the genre of bluegrass in the 1940s.
Watching the Skies with Brad Klein| June 24-30 | A 'new' morning star
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Brad Klein reviews the week’s astronomical highlights with Bethlehem’s ‘Backyard Astronomy Guy,’ Marty McGuire. This week, they discuss the ‘morning star’. Although Venus is the planet most often associated with that phrase, sometimes that planet plays the role of ‘evening star’. And sometimes, like this week, Venus is not visible in the night sky. “It can’t be seen at all," McGuire said, speaking of Venus which is sometimes blocked from our view by the Sun.
WATCHING THE SKIES – June 17-23, 2024 – Phases of the Moon
BETHLEHEM, Pa. - Brad Klein reviews the week’s astronomical highlights with Bethlehem’s ‘Backyard Astronomy Guy,’ Marty McGuire. This week, the basics of watching what Juliet, that star-crossed lover, called the 'inconstant moon'. Although we all learn that the Earth orbits the Sun, and the Moon orbits the Earth, that’s not really the way we experience the Solar System from the Lehigh Valley. From our point of view, the Sun and Moon appear to rise and set.
Watching the Skies with Brad Klein |June 10-16, 2024 | China’s Moon Mission
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Brad Klein reviews the week’s astronomical highlights with Bethlehem’s ‘Backyard Astronomy Guy,’ Marty McGuire. This week, they present an update on China’s audacious mission to visit the far side of the moon, gather rock and soil samples, and return them to Earth. The landing location created significant technical challenges, but also potentially great rewards.
Watching the Skies with Brad Klein | June 3-9 | Voyager I, back in service
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — WLVR’s Brad Klein reviews the week’s astronomical highlights with Bethlehem’s ‘Backyard Astronomy Guy,’ Marty McGuire. This week, they discuss the Voyager 1 spacecraft. Voyager 1 was launched in 1977 to monitor interstellar space and send back findings to Earth. According to McGuire, it is now the furthest man-made object from Earth, having travelled to a distance of around 15 billion miles away.
WATCHING THE SKIES | May 20-26 | A special view of the star Antares this week
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — WLVR’s Brad Klein reviews the week’s astronomical highlights with Bethlehem’s ‘Backyard Astronomy Guy,’ Marty McGuire. This week, a special chance to view the star Antares. On May 23, the orange-red star will appear to be very close to the full moon as it rises in the southeast, McGuire said. Seen from the Lehigh Valley, after the Sun sets (in the West, of course), Antares will appear very close to the rising Moon.
WATCHING THE SKIES | May 13-19 | Wednesday will be a bright night for this Leo the Lion star
BETHLEHEM, Pa. – WLVR’s Brad Klein reviews the week’s astronomical highlights with Bethlehem’s ‘Backyard Astronomy Guy,’ Marty McGuire. This week, it's all about the star, Regulus. On Wednesday, May 15, shortly after sunset, the first quarter moon will be low in the western sky. McGuire says that you can use the moon to find the bright star, Regulus. Regulus is one of the brightest stars in the night sky, and the brightest component of the constellation, Leo, the well-known lion of the Zodiac.
WATCHING THE SKIES - May 6-12 Apollo-era lunar landers, on the Moon
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — WLVR’s Brad Klein reviews the week’s astronomical highlights with Bethlehem’s ‘Backyard Astronomy Guy,’ Marty McGuire. This week, Brad and Marty discuss images that McGuire acquired from India’s space program. The Indian Space Research Organization [ISRO] deployed a lunar orbiter in 2019, according to McGuire.
WATCHING THE SKIES - April 29-May 5 – Farewell to Jupiter in the night sky
BETHLEHEM, Pa. – WLVR’s Brad Klein reviews the week’s astronomical highlights with Bethlehem’s ‘Backyard Astronomy Guy,’ Marty McGuire. This week, Brad and Marty discuss the planet Jupiter. All winter, it has been among the brightest objects in the night sky, and it’s still visible - shining brightly in the Western sky just after sunset. But soon it will disappear from the Spring evening sky, only to re-emerge in the pre-dawn Summer mornings.
Watching the Skies: April 22-28 - The Pink Moon
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — WLVR’s Brad Klein reviews the week’s astronomical highlights with Bethlehem’s ‘Backyard Astronomy Guy,’ Marty McGuire. This week, Brad and Marty discuss Tuesday’s full moon. It’s known as the ‘Pink Moon.' According to McGuire, the full moon of each month has a name — more of a nickname, really. He points out that the ‘Pink Moon’ won’t actually be pink. This moon was named after a flower or herb called ‘moss pink,’ McGuire said.
Watching the Skies with Brad Klein: April 15-21 - The Eclipse from Tupper Lake, NY
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — WLVR’s Brad Klein reviews the week’s astronomical highlights with Bethlehem’s ‘Backyard Astronomy Guy,’ Marty McGuire. This week, Brad and Marty spoke by phone to discuss the total solar eclipse of April 8, 2024. Marty traveled to Tupper Lake, New York to observe the eclipse within the path of 100% totality. He stationed himself at a solar eclipse viewing festival called “Totality in Tupper.” There, he set up his cameras and telescope and hoped for clear skies.
Watching the Skies with Brad Klein | April 1 - 7: The Devil's Comet
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Brad Klein reviews the week’s astronomical highlights with Bethlehem’s ‘Backyard Astronomy Guy,’ Marty McGuire. This week… a visitor from deep space is nearing its closest approach to our sun. Comet 12P Pons/Brooks is known as the Devil’s Comet since its tail can appear ‘horned’ in the night sky. No two comets are exactly the same, and so brightness, and the best time to observe the Devil’s Comet, can be hard to predict.
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