NASA’s NEOWISE Mission has discovered two new celestial bodies around the Earth. One of them is comet C/2016 U1, the brightness of which in the first week of January may become available to the binoculars. it is reported N+1 with reference to the press release NASA. C/2016 U1 non-periodic comet with a hyperbolic orbit. To watch it would be before dawn in the constellation Ophiuchus, to the East. The perihelion is expected on January 14. the origin of the second body is not precisely defined — it can be like an asteroid and a comet. According to experts NASA, the comet C/2016 U1 NEOWISE has all the chances to achieve brilliance in the order of seventh or eighth magnitude and be visible in Amateur telescopes and binoculars. it is Important to note that the brightness of the comet is predicted inaccurately and the object may be as brighter and dimmer forecast. in Addition to C/2016 U1, a good object for observing the winter sky may be the comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova. Now the comet passes its perihelion, and in January its brightness is expected to be sixth magnitude. In January the comet will be visible against the evening dawn (for observations need the equipment), and in February the comet will be easily observed in the morning, before sunrise in the constellation of the eagle. 11 Feb 45P will approach the Earth at a distance of 0.08 astronomical units and its movement across the sky will be easily visible — a distance equal to the diameter of the moon it will fly in about 80 minutes.
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