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Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, or Comet A3, is a dusty ball of ice from the Oort Cloud that takes about 80,000 years to orbit the sun. ... or pull up a website such as Stellarium (free) on your phone ...
A time-lapse of comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) captured on 10 May 2024. By January 2024, the comet had brightened to an apparent magnitude of 13.6 and according to Bob King, author in Sky & Telescope magazine, was visible through 15-inch telescopes at ×142 magnification. [10]
C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) (previously had the temporary designation A11bP7I) was a sungrazing comet that was discovered by ATLAS-HKO in Hawaii on 27 September 2024. The comet passed its perihelion on 28 October 2024, at a distance of about 0.008 AU (1.2 million km; 0.74 million mi) from the barycenter of the Solar System, [ 1 ] and disintegrated.
The comet, now called C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, (A3 for short) survived it’s close transit of the sun and will become easier to spot in the western sky by early next week.
Here's what Hoosiers need to know before the comet slips out of our solar system. Going, going, almost gone. How to see Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas in Indiana before it disappears
Comet ATLAS, nicknamed the 'Headless Comet,' might be seen on Halloween
C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is a long-period, sungrazing comet, which will reach perihelion on January 13, 2025, at a distance of 0.09 AU from the Sun. It could become the brightest comet of 2025 , [ 4 ] possibly exceeding apparent magnitude of –2.0.
Discovered last year, the comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS will be visible in the California sky on Saturday night for the first time in 80,000 years.