Valley City, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) —   VCSU Professor Joe Stickler, science department chair, will host a comet watch for Comet PANSTARRS at 8:00 p.m., Thursday, March 14, 2013 at the Rosebud Visitors Center parking lot.

Here’s your chance to see the comet that passed within 100 million miles of Earth last week.

Beginning March 12 the comet should be visible near the waxing crescent moon; look toward the western horizon after sunset. Binoculars will aid in locating the comet.

For more information on the comet, visit

http://earthsky.org/space/comet-panstarrs.