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APOD: 2024 October 14 Á Comet Tsuchinshan ATLAS Over the Lincoln Memorial
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Credit & Copyright: Brennan Gilmore
Explanation:
Go outside at sunset tonight and see a comet!
C/2023 A3 (TsuchinshanÁATLAS) has become visible in the early evening sky in
northern locations to the unaided eye.
To see
the comet, look west through a sky with a low horizon.
If the sky is clear and dark enough,
you will not even need binoculars -- the
faint tail of the
comet should be visible
just above the horizon for about an hour.
Pictured, Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS was captured two nights ago over the
Lincoln Memorial monument in
Washington, DC,
USA.
With each passing day at sunset, the
comet
and its
changing tail
should be higher and higher in the sky,
although exactly how bright and how long its tails will be
can
only be guessed.
Growing Gallery:
Comet Tsuchinsan-ATLAS in 2024
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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