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Skygazers will have something to look forward to this weekend as also the beginning of the coming week with a comet becoming visible to the naked eye from the northern hemisphere just after sundown.

If one has a clear western horizon, one can locate the Comet-C/2011 L4, sometimes called PANSTARR after the telescope that was used to discover it two years back, with the naked eyes or wide-field binoculars just after sunset when it is near perihelion, point of closest approach to sun.

Favourable dates start from March 9, said Debiprosad Duari, director, Research and Academic, M.P. Birla Institute of Fundamental Research, in a release here.