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  • Location: Whaley Bridge - Peak District
  • Location: Whaley Bridge - Peak District
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This Comet is more favoured for Southern Hemisphere observers but it might be seen during the daytime for us in the North as it reaches maximum magnitude.

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Learn about comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), its potential brightness in 2025, and how to observe it. Will this comet live up to our expectations?

 

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  • Location: Thrapston | Northamptonshire
  • Weather Preferences: Severe weather
  • Location: Thrapston | Northamptonshire
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Looks to be a bright comet. It seems a lot more likely to survive than its rubble pile inferior (S1 Atlas).

 

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  • Location: Thrapston | Northamptonshire
  • Weather Preferences: Severe weather
  • Location: Thrapston | Northamptonshire
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What a disgrace of an article. Lies that it’s easily visible from the UK and proceeds to show a photo from another comet. The comet is 100% invisible to the northern hemisphere unless it reaches -4 magnitude.

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One of the brightest comets to pass the earth in the last 20 years could be visible from parts of the UK tonight.

 

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  • Location: Thrapston | Northamptonshire
  • Weather Preferences: Severe weather
  • Location: Thrapston | Northamptonshire
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The Current comet is absolutely incredible in the LASCO C3 view. 2nd brightest ever seen for a non-sungrazing comet.

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  • Location: Whaley Bridge - Peak District
  • Location: Whaley Bridge - Peak District
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Looking at Stellarium it's possible to see ATLAS G3 low on the SW horizon in the UK from tomorrow evening with the only limiting factors being the evening twilight glow and having to need a unobstructed view. I agree about the media over-hyping this Comet like it's Hale-Bopp as sadly those type of stellar flyby's are once, maybe twice, to be seen in a lifetime. 

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  • Location: South East UK
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms/squalls/hoar-frost/mist
  • Location: South East UK
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 GreyCrag Someone on an astronomy forum got a photo of the Comet yesterday evening from Cornwall, but it's with a 300mm zoom, and hard to see with no contrast. He couldn't find it with binoculars. 

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  • Location: Whaley Bridge - Peak District
  • Location: Whaley Bridge - Peak District
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 Sprites  Its quite a difficult one to see except for those who are stubborn in wanting to 'tag and bag' it, I was thinking of having a go at seeing it myself whilst it's still at magnitude -1 but there's just been too much atmospheric haze and twilight afterglow to make any fruitful attempts with only a max range of 120mm on the Z7 (no crop.) 

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  • Location: South East UK
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms/squalls/hoar-frost/mist
  • Location: South East UK
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 GreyCrag Yeah it's been too cloudy here anyway. Would of been really vivid had it been higher and at night. Always best for the southern hemisphere. 

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  • Location: Thrapston | Northamptonshire
  • Weather Preferences: Severe weather
  • Location: Thrapston | Northamptonshire
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Quite the show set for the southern hemisphere in the next few days.

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  • Location: Thrapston | Northamptonshire
  • Weather Preferences: Severe weather
  • Location: Thrapston | Northamptonshire
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Wow 🤩 

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  • Location: Thrapston | Northamptonshire
  • Weather Preferences: Severe weather
  • Location: Thrapston | Northamptonshire
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A small amount of disintegration might of happened to the main comet but the tail is still incredible and bright.

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  • Location: Thrapston | Northamptonshire
  • Weather Preferences: Severe weather
  • Location: Thrapston | Northamptonshire
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If this was a few magnitudes brighter we could of been dealing with a historic comet with multiple tails.

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