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Credit & Copyright: P-M Hedén (Clear Skies,
TWAN)
Explanation:
This new comet is quite photogenic.
Comet Lovejoy, discovered only three months ago, was
imaged through
ruins of ancient
MÆrby
Castle in
Sweden
last week sporting a green-glowing
coma and tails trailing several degrees.
The past few weeks have been an unusually active time for
comet watchers
as four comets were
visible simultaneously with binoculars:
ISON,
Lovejoy,
Encke, and
LINEAR.
C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy) comet is
currently visible
to the unaided eye from a dark location.
As Monday's new Moon will provide little glare, the next few days provide a
good time to see
Comet Lovejoy
as it reaches its
peak brightness.
In two and a half weeks,
Comet Lovejoy will reach its closest approach to the Sun at a
distance just inside the orbital distance of the Earth.
Late ISON News:
Multiple
views from Sun-observing spacecraft
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A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: comet
Publications with words: comet
See also:
- APOD: 2025 February 5 Á Comet G3 ATLAS Setting over a Chilean Hill
- APOD: 2025 February 2 Á Comet G3 ATLAS Disintegrates
- APOD: 2025 January 28 Á Comet G3 ATLAS over Uruguay
- APOD: 2025 January 26 Á The Many Tails of Comet G3 ATLAS
- Comet G3 ATLAS: a Tail and a Telescope
- APOD: 2025 January 21 Á Comet ATLAS over Brasilia
- APOD: 2025 January 20 Á Comet ATLAS Rounds the Sun