Comet at Moonrise
Comet at Moonrise
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Explanation:
Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS)
is growing brighter in planet Earth’s sky.
Fondly known as comet A3,
this new visitor to the inner Solar System is traveling from the
distant Oort cloud.
The comet reached perihelion,
its closest approach to the Sun,
on September 27 and will reach perigee, its
closest to our fair planet, on October 12,
by then becoming an evening sky apparition.
But comet A3
was an early morning riser on September 30
when this image was made.
Its bright coma and already long tail share a pre-dawn skyscape from
Praia Grande, Santa Catarina in southern Brazil with
the waning crescent Moon just peeking above the eastern horizon.
While the behaviour of comets is
notoriously
unpredictable, Tsuchinshan–ATLAS could become a
comet visually rivaling
C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE).
Comet NEOWISE
wowed skygazers in the summer of 2020.
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