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You can find and track Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS from your location using our Night Sky Map. This image shows the view from New York at 20:00 (8:00 pm) on October 18, 2024. ©timeanddate.com. Find Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS on our Night Sky Map. News update: Two comets in October? Tsuchinshan-ATLAS Lights Up the Evening Sky
The comet will initially appear low on the western horizon in the glow of twilight about 45 minutes after sunset each day starting Saturday, Oct. 12, through the end of the month, Cooke said.
Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas, the C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-Atlas comet, is captured over the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco on Sunday, Oct. 14, 2024. Weather.com senior meteorologist Dina Knightly ...
Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) – aka Comet A3 – is in the evening sky! And it’s the brightest comet in 27 years, the brightest since Hale-Bopp in 1997. Look to the right of the bright ...
30. 36°. 247°. 83. –19°. Azimuth tells us where the comet is with relation to the cardinal directions (north, south, east, west). An azimuth of 0° is north, and 270° is due west. Altitude ...
How To Locate Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS: Thursday, Oct. 17. Position: west, 37 degrees from the sun in Serpens. Time: 45 minutes after sunset where you are. Magnitude: +1.3. Comet’s distance from ...
How to see Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas. Look to the constellation Virgo above the western horizon shortly after sunset. Use binoculars or a telescope to spot the comet — right now, Tsuchinshan-Atlas is dim enough that it could be a challenge to see with the naked eye, depending on your eyesight and where you live.
Earth-based observers looking to the night sky may be treated to a rare sight in autumn 2024. Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, which likely traveled from the outer reaches of our solar system, made its closest transit past the Sun on September 27 and was expected to come within approximately 70 million kilometers (44 million miles) of Earth on October 12.
The comet will be closest to the Earth on Saturday, Oct. 12, but should be visible until the end of October. Stargazers in the Southern Hemisphere will have the best view of the...
The comet, which was discovered in January 2023 and named after the two observatories that independently spotted it, visits the inner solar system roughly every 80,000 years.