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Comet Holmes was discovered by Edwin Holmes on November 6, 1892, while he was conducting regular observations of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Its discovery in 1892 was possible because of an increase in its magnitude similar to the 2007 outburst; it brightened to an approximate magnitude of 4 or 5 before fading from visibility over a ...
Comet C/2023 A3 Tschinshan-ATLAS will be at its closest point to Earth, 44 million miles, on Saturday, and should be visible to the naked eye in the western sky just after sunset. The comet will ...
No observations of the comet with naked eye in daylight were reported, indicating a peak visual magnitude of -2 to -3, while observations of the comet on 9 October with binoculars indicated an apparent magniude of -3. [23] The comet was recovered in the evening sky on 10 October [16] and the next days became visible with the naked eye.
A bright comet has made a rare appearance in the sky, and skywatchers will have several opportunities to see it before it retreats into the icy depths of space. Comet C/2023 A3, also known as ...
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.
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.
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Lower Hudson Valley residents may have a chance to spot another rare celestial event in the skies for the next two weeks. Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, also known as Comet C/2023 A3 and Comet A3, hasn ...