WITH summer now well upon us and the solstice behind us, the days will start to get shorter, but this will be almost unnoticeable until about February.
This month we have a visitor, with comet Lovejoy gracing our skies.
It was discovered last year on August 17 by Australian comet hunter Terry Lovejoy. It isn't due back for 8000 years.
At the moment it is shining at magnitude four, which is about as bright as the fourth star in the Southern Cross.
It will remain this bright until about mid-January, then fade and by month's end be all but impossible to see in the evening twilight as it heads westward.