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Credit & Copyright: Petr Horalek /
Institute of Physics in Opava
Explanation:
Tonight, if you can see the stars of the
Big Dipper,
then you can find comet Lemmon in your evening sky.
After sunset,
look for the faint but extended comet
above your northwestern horizon --
but below the handle of the famous celestial kitchen utensil of the north.
It might be easier to see this visitor to the inner
Solar System through your camera phone,
which is better at picking up faint objects.
Either way, look for a fuzzy
green 'star' with a tail, though probably
not so long a tail as in
this impressive snapshot taken over Seä Lake in the
Czech Republic two nights ago.
Recent photographs of
C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) often show a detailed and
changing ion tail
which extends farther than the eye can follow.
This
Sun-orbiting comet
is now near its closest approach to
Earth
and will pass its closest to the
Sun in early November.
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