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Astronomy Picture of the Day - The Long Tails Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS
NASA ^ | 7 Oct, 2024 | Image Credit & Copyright: Jose Santivañez Mueras

Posted on 10/07/2024 5:10:37 PM PDT by MtnClimber

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.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; c2023a3; nasa; tsuchinshanatlas
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1 posted on 10/07/2024 5:10:37 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 10/07/2024 5:10:57 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: 21stCenturion; 21twelve; 4everontheRight; abb; AFB-XYZ; AFPhys; Agatsu77; America_Right; ...
Pinging the APOD list

🪐 🌟 🌌 🍔

3 posted on 10/07/2024 5:11:31 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

Wow.


4 posted on 10/07/2024 5:11:59 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: MtnClimber; dfwgator

Somebody call Téa Leoni!


5 posted on 10/07/2024 5:18:57 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: No name given

I assume you know that the ‘Wow’ signal was never repeated...


6 posted on 10/07/2024 5:22:03 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: MtnClimber

That’s two comet pics in as many days. Both were very cool. The hype around no-show Kohoutek decades ago soured me on comet viewing. I feel lucky to see the occasional solar or lunar eclipse.


7 posted on 10/07/2024 5:47:38 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: BradyLS

All we got from Kohoutek was a laser light show song from Journey.

https://youtu.be/SRKZ_f67vTw?si=OyfAZ3_DxO6sKfpy


8 posted on 10/07/2024 6:14:46 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: MtnClimber

What a great picture. The comet has such a long tail, and the colors are just beautiful.


9 posted on 10/07/2024 7:18:36 PM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: BradyLS

Kohoutek WAS a dud. Halley wasn’t much better. I’m hoping you got to see Hyakutake and Hale-Bopp. They were wonderful. And two years in a row, to boot!


10 posted on 10/07/2024 7:22:17 PM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: MtnClimber

A most excellent picture! Thanks!


11 posted on 10/07/2024 8:43:36 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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To: SaveFerris

We can watch it from the beach, like she and her dad!


12 posted on 10/07/2024 9:38:31 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/10/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: j.havenfarm

Yeah but they let the Jaguar get all destroyed!!

It’s hard to find a Jaguar that’s running!

SAVE the Jaguar! Forget that stupid girl that got away on the motorcycle!


13 posted on 10/07/2024 9:40:13 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: telescope115

[Kohoutek WAS a dud.]

No way man!

Comet Kohoutek provided LOTS of material for Johnny Carson back in the day!


14 posted on 10/07/2024 9:41:45 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

That is true, lol. I know he was a democrat, but I think he would’ve had a lot of fun with Biden and Harris. He lampooned everyone.


15 posted on 10/08/2024 6:04:39 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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