Chuck Darwin on Nostr: There’s only one comet with real potential to reach naked eye visibility in 2025: ...
There’s only one comet with real potential to reach naked eye visibility in 2025:
Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS.
This comet may’ top -1st magnitude or brighter.
At magnitude +4 in late December, Comet G3 ATLAS could become a fine object low in the dawn sky for southern hemisphere observers… if (a big ‘if) it holds together and performs as expected.
That's because on January 13th it reaches perihelion -- it's minimum distance from the Sun
-- at 0.094 Astronomical Units (AU), just 8.7 million miles or 14 million kilometers from the Sun and interior to the orbit of Mercury!
The comet already produced an outburst over the first weekend of 2025,
jumping from magnitude +4 to +1
(a sixteen-fold increase in brightness in a few short days).
This could be a harbinger for good (or bad) things to come shortly.
https://www.universetoday.com/170008/will-comet-g3-atlas-perform-at-perihelion/
Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS.
This comet may’ top -1st magnitude or brighter.
At magnitude +4 in late December, Comet G3 ATLAS could become a fine object low in the dawn sky for southern hemisphere observers… if (a big ‘if) it holds together and performs as expected.
That's because on January 13th it reaches perihelion -- it's minimum distance from the Sun
-- at 0.094 Astronomical Units (AU), just 8.7 million miles or 14 million kilometers from the Sun and interior to the orbit of Mercury!
The comet already produced an outburst over the first weekend of 2025,
jumping from magnitude +4 to +1
(a sixteen-fold increase in brightness in a few short days).
This could be a harbinger for good (or bad) things to come shortly.
https://www.universetoday.com/170008/will-comet-g3-atlas-perform-at-perihelion/