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Credit & Copyright: Dan Bartlett`
Explanation:
In dark evening skies over June Lake,
northern hemisphere, planet Earth,
Comet
12P/Pons-Brooks
stood just above the western horizon on March 30.
Its twisted turbulent ion tail and diffuse greenish coma are captured
in this two degree wide telescopic field of view along with bright
yellowish star Hamal also known as
Alpha
Arietis.
Now Pons-Brooks has moved out of the northern night though, approaching
perihelion on April 21.
On
April 8 you might
still spot the comet in daytime skies.
But to do it, you will have to stand in the path of totality and
look away from the spectacle of an
alluring
solar corona and totally eclipsed Sun.
NASA Coverage:
Total
Solar Eclipse of 2024 April 8
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NASA Official: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply.
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: 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
- Most of Comet Tsuchinshan ATLAS