Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter and experienced stargazer who covers the night sky, astro-tourism, the northern lights and space exploration. He received the 2023 Popular Media Award from the American Astronomical Society's Solar Physics Division and is the author of A Stargazing Program for Beginners. Writing for Forbes.
Tsuchinshan-Atlas comet, the brightest comet of the last 13 years in Van, Turkiye on October 15, 2024. is no longer a naked-eye object, but if you have binoculars or a small telescope, it’s still worth finding.
This long-period comet from the Oort Cloud — a sphere around the solar system home to millions of comets — astronomers think it loops around the sun once every 80,000 years. Also known as comet A3 and C/2023 A3, this snowball from the depths of the solar system has a central coma 130,000 miles in diameter. It also has a trademark tail extending 18 million miles .
Although its magnitude of +3.4 makes it technically visible to the naked eye, this comet is rapidly getting fainter and smaller as it returns to the Oort Cloud. Tonight it will be 79 million miles from the sun and 78 million miles from Earth. However, if you know when and where to look, it can still be found in the constellation Ophiuchus. As a bonus, it’s now visible in a dark sky, with last week’siPhone 17 Pro Max Design Upgrade: New Look Predicted In Latest LeakComet’s distance from the sun: 79 million miles So far, the guiding lights to find the comet have been the bright planet Venus and the bright red star Arcturus.
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