Credit & Copyright: Jose Santivacez Mueras
Explanation:
A bright comet is moving into the evening skies.
C/2023 A3 (TsuchinshanBATLAS) 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
TsuchinshanBATLAS
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.b
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.
Growing Gallery:
Comet Tsuchinsan-ATLAS in 2024
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Based on Astronomy Picture
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