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.
Do you know where to look? See my sky charts below — and my"cosmic coat hanger" technique for two different ways of locating comet A3 .
The comet’s coma measures around 130,000 miles in diameter, with a tail extending 18 million miles , but it's getting fainter and smaller as it heads off into the outer solar system — probably never to return. Although its magnitude of +2.8 makes it technically visible in a dark sky, you'll almost certainly require binoculars or a small telescope to see it. An alternative is toHow To Locate Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS: Thursday, Oct. 24Comet’s distance from Earth: 68 million miles
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