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Credit & Copyright: Adam Block
Explanation:
On October 14 it was hard to capture a full view of
Comet C/2023 A3
Tsuchinshan-ATLAS.
Taken after the comet's closest approach to our fair planet,
this evening skyview
almost does though.
With two telephoto frames combined, the image stretches about 26 degrees
across the sky from top to bottom,
looking west from Gates Pass, Tucson, Arizona.
Comet watchers that night could even
identify
globular star cluster M5
and the faint apparition of periodic comet 13P Olbers near the
long the path of Tsuchinshan-ATLAS's whitish dust tail
above the bright comet's coma.
Due to perspective
as the Earth is crossing the comet's orbital plane,
Tsuchinshan-ATLAS also has a pronounced antitail.
The antitail is composed of dust previously released
and fanning out away from the Sun along the comet's orbit,
visible as a needle-like extension below the bright coma toward
the rugged western horizon.
Growing Gallery:
Comet
Tsuchinshan-ATLAS in 2024
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Based on Astronomy Picture
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See also:
- APOD: 2024 December 16 Á A Kilometer High Cliff on Comet Churyumov Gerasimenko
- APOD: 2024 November 27 Á The Meteor and the Comet
- APOD: 2024 November 11 Á The Unusual Tails of Comet Tsuchinshan Atlas
- APOD: 2024 November 6 Á Comet Tsuchinshan Atlas over the Dolomites
- APOD: 2024 October 21 Á Comet Tsuchinshan ATLAS over California
- Comet Tsuchinshan ATLAS Flys Away
- The Clipper and the Comet