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Comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS
Oct. 24th, 2024 08:36 pmLast week, we finally had a clear day where we could go take a look and try to spot the Tsuchinshan-ATLAS comet.
It was dimmer that night than it had been on previous nights, but the previous few nights had been too cloudy. My eyesight isn't good enough to have really quite seen it with the naked eye - I could see that there was *something* there, but couldn't see the comet itself very clearly - but Alex's phone picked it up fairly well.
This was my favorite of the shots he got.
Definitely neat to see. :) I don't recall ever getting to see a comet that was this visible (I was born a couple years too late for Halley's comet's last visit, and the others I remember hearing about typically required a telescope.)
It was dimmer that night than it had been on previous nights, but the previous few nights had been too cloudy. My eyesight isn't good enough to have really quite seen it with the naked eye - I could see that there was *something* there, but couldn't see the comet itself very clearly - but Alex's phone picked it up fairly well.
This was my favorite of the shots he got.
Definitely neat to see. :) I don't recall ever getting to see a comet that was this visible (I was born a couple years too late for Halley's comet's last visit, and the others I remember hearing about typically required a telescope.)
