BEST TIME TO SEE: First half of February in the evening sky
Comet 144P/Kushida is a ninth-magnitude comet this month, a good target for a small telescope or larger-format binoculars. It’s especially well placed for Northern Hemisphere observation and is easy to locate for the first third of the month, as it passes across the Hyades open cluster in Taurus.
On the night of 1/2 February, 144P/ Kushida is located 2.5° west of mag. +3.7 Gamma (γ) Tauri, the star at the pointed end of the ‘V’ shape formed by the main stars in