by APOD Robot » Mon Oct 07, 2024 4:06 am
The Long Tails Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS
Explanation: A bright comet is moving into the evening skies.
C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) has brightened and even though it is now easily
visible to the unaided eye, it is so near to the Sun that it is still difficult to see.
Pictured, Comet
Tsuchinshan–ATLAS was captured just before sunrise from an
Andes Mountain in
Peru. Braving cold weather, this unusually
high perch gave the astrophotographer such a low eastern horizon that the
comet was obvious in the pre-dawn sky. Visible in the
featured image is not only an
impressively long dust tail extending over
many degrees, but an impressively long and blue
ion tail, too. This month, as the
comet moves out from the
Sun and passes the
Earth, evening observers should be able to see the huge dirty
ice ball toward the west just after
sunset.
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