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APOD on Nostr: **Astronomy Picture of the Day** 18 October 2024 **Most of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS** ...

**Astronomy Picture of the Day**

18 October 2024

**Most of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS**



Image Credit & Copyright: Adam Block

On October 14 it was hard to capture a full view of Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS. Taken after the comet's closest approach to our fair planet, this evening skyview almost does though. With two telephoto frames combined, the image stretches about 26 degrees across the sky from top to bottom, looking west from Gates Pass, Tucson, Arizona. Comet watchers that night could even identify globular star cluster M5 and the faint apparition of periodic comet 13P Olbers near the long the path of Tsuchinshan-ATLAS's whitish dust tail above the bright comet's coma. Due to perspective as the Earth is crossing the comet's orbital plane, Tsuchinshan-ATLAS also has a pronounced antitail. The antitail is composed of dust previously released and fanning out away from the Sun along the comet's orbit, visible as a needle-like extension below the bright coma toward the rugged western horizon. Growing Gallery: Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS in 2024

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