How to 'star-hop' your way to view Comet Leonard this week - KSL.com

After that, the comet will appear low in the evening sky right after sunset, said Marlene Egger, the Salt Lake Astronomical Society Bogdand Refractor training coordinator.

She shared one of her diagrams with ksl.com, which shows how to specifically "star hop" Comet Leonard Wednesday morning.

According to Egger, on that morning, the comet will be hiding out in a region of the sky near the constellations Bootes and Corona Borealis.

From the handle of the Big Dipper, arc to Arcturus, the brightest star in the eastern sky," she said.

Egger offered another diagram, which involves star hopping to the base of a triangle formed by Arcturus, a second bright star in Boötes called Izar, and the brightest star in the Corona Borealis, Alphecca.

While space bloggers claim the comet, which was discovered by the eponymous astronomer Greg Leonard in Tucson, Arizona, back in January, could be visible to the naked eye at some point this week, both Wiggins and Egger are not as optimistic.

Like so many other astronomical phenomena, Comet Leonard will only appear this one time