In case you aren’t quite cometed out, there’s another that is expected to be a very easy naked eye object late this month.

The ATLAS survey telescope has detected a comet approaching the sun … which should be a naked eye object after sunset for a few weeks beginning around Oct. 9.

The new comet, initially named A11bP7I and now called C/2024 S1 (Atlas), appears to be unusually large and could become a “significant naked eye object by the end of October,” according to SpaceWeather.com.

C/2024 S1 (Atlas) is expected to make its closest approach to Earth on Oct. 23 and have its perihelion with the sun — the closest it will get to our star — just five days later on Oct. 28. That latter date looks set to be the best time to observe it because it may shine at a brightness of magnitude -8.3. That’s extraordinarily bright, brighter even than Venus, the brightest object in the sky aside from the sun and moon.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2024/10/06/why-you-suddenly-now-need-to-see-two-brilliant-comets-this-month/

Sungrazer is right. It is expected to come within 0.5 million km of the surface of the sun. The sun’s diameter is about 1.4 million km.

Thanks.

This comet is listed as not visible at the moment, even after rising around 4 am, on:

https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/night/

Michael V said:

This comet is listed as not visible at the moment, even after rising around 4 am, on:

https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/night/

when should we try again

SCIENCE said:

Michael V said:

This comet is listed as not visible at the moment, even after rising around 4 am, on:

https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/night/

when should we try again

Today it is setting at 5:14 pm, so I guess in a week or two.

Well this was a fizzer.

dv said:

Well this was a fizzer.

Well it didn’t kill off any dinosaurs, let’s put it that way.

Bubblecar said:

dv said:

Well this was a fizzer.

Well it didn’t kill off any dinosaurs, let’s put it that way.

They are safe for now, as long as we don’t tell anybody where they are.

The comet evaporated within two hours on 28/10/20, near perihelion and no longer exists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2024_S1_(ATLAS)

Michael V said:

The comet evaporated within two hours on 28/10/20, near perihelion and no longer exists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2024_S1_(ATLAS)

Flew too close to the sun.

roughbarked said:

Michael V said:

The comet evaporated within two hours on 28/10/20, near perihelion and no longer exists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2024_S1_(ATLAS)

Flew too close to the sun.

Just like Icarus.

Michael V said:

roughbarked said:

Michael V said:

The comet evaporated within two hours on 28/10/20, near perihelion and no longer exists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2024_S1_(ATLAS)

Flew too close to the sun.

Just like Icarus.

Was gonne use Icarus but opted to use his folly. ;)

Michael V said:

The comet evaporated within two hours on 28/10/20, near perihelion and no longer exists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2024_S1_(ATLAS)

Weak

sigh

back in 2007 when we last got a good shot at a comet

those were the times

SCIENCE said:

sigh

back in 2007 when we last got a good shot at a comet

those were the times

What comet is that?

Peak Warming Man said:

SCIENCE said:

sigh

back in 2007 when we last got a good shot at a comet

those were the times

What comet is that?

McNaught?

Michael V said:

Peak Warming Man said:

SCIENCE said:

sigh

back in 2007 when we last got a good shot at a comet

those were the times

What comet is that?

McNaught?

The Great Comet of 2007.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_McNaught

Michael V said:

Michael V said:

Peak Warming Man said:

What comet is that?

McNaught?

The Great Comet of 2007.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_McNaught

Ta.