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Credit & Copyright: Jan Hattenbach
Explanation:
You couldn't see Comet LeonardÁs
extremely long tail with a telescope Á it was just
too long.
You also couldn't see it with binoculars Á still too long.
Or with your eyes -- it was too dim.
Or from a city Á the sky was too bright.
But from a dark location with a low horizon Á
your camera could.
And still might -- if
the comet survives today's closest encounter with the Sun,
which occurs between the orbits of
Mercury and
Venus.
The featured picture was created from two deep and
wide-angle camera images taken from
La Palma in the
Canary Islands
of Spain late last month.
Afterwards, if it survives, what is left of
Comet Leonard's
nucleus will head out of
our Solar System, never to return.
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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