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.
Kitt Peak National Observatory, a Program of NSF NOIRLab, just outside Tucson, Arizona in this image. It was captured in the morning hours before sunrise on Saturday 28 September 2024 by Rob Sparks from NOIRLab.? Probably not, but there is another reason to be outside at sunset — a comet called C/2023 A3 . With a naked-eye brightness and a large tail, it's set to be equally unmissable.
Although NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center initially said that Oct. 11 and Oct. 12 could be high levels of geomagnetic activity, it's nowjust a G1 geomagnetic storm with a magnitude of Kp 4 . That means only the far-north U.S. states are likely even to get a glimpse of the aurora. Discovered early in 2023 by China’s Tsuchinshan Observatory and South Africa’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System telescope, comet C/2023 A3 is on an 80,000-year orbit from the remote Oort Cloud that surrounds the solar system.
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