Posted on 03/09/2024 12:25:15 PM PST by MtnClimber
Explanation: As spring approaches for northern skygazers, Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks is growing brighter. Currently visible with small telescopes and binoculars, the Halley-type comet could reach naked eye visibility in the coming weeks. Seen despite a foggy atmosphere, the comet's green coma and long tail hover near the horizon in this well-composed deep night skyscape from Revuca, Slovakia recorded on March 5. In the sky above the comet, the Andromeda (right) and Triangulum galaxies flank bright star Mirach, beta star of the constellation Andromeda. The two spiral galaxies are members of our local galaxy group and over 2.5 million light-years distant. Comet Pons-Brooks is a periodic visitor to the inner Solar System and less than 14 light-minutes away. Reaching its perihelion on April 21, this comet should be visible in the sky during the April 8 total solar eclipse.
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Visible in the US?
You have to be pretty far north to see it. The photo from Slovakia is from about the same latitude as Maine. The comet is approaching the northern horizon even that far north. Then it will be in the sky during daytime where you can't see it except if you are in the total solar eclipse.
We’re gonna rock around the clock tonight.
We’re gonna rock, gonna rock til broad daylight...
Oops wrong comet.
Thank you....was afraid of that. That’d be awesome to see.
When that galaxy hits us, it is lights out!
But the NASA page says
As spring approaches for northern skygazers, Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks is growing brighter. Currently visible with small telescopes and binoculars, the Halley-type comet could reach naked eye visibility in the coming weeks.
You have to be far enough north or it will be below the horizon.
Okay, thanks.
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