Comets

[obsidian ledge]

those are flares

[little moon]

It is indeed a CME starting up

No comet

[compact mesa]

odd that it matches with the comets path but hey, also pretty cool to catch

tbh im not convinced yet

[little moon]

I’m 100% convinced

Even in the unlikely case that was part of it’s tail, The comet itself has not reappeared when it should have

[compact mesa]

please let me cope just more lol

[obsidian ledge]

NO

[little moon]

I’m specially trying to cope

When I organised a trip to La Palma specifically for this comet

[compact mesa]

you wanted to get pictures like the southern hemisphere people got last year

C/2024 G3

[obsidian ledge]

oh god

[little moon]

Kinda

But screw that weak ass rock

I’m still going

[obsidian ledge]

[little moon]

La Palma is sick anyway

[obsidian ledge]

does it taste yummy

[compact mesa]

100%

[compact mesa]

I mean it did have the same velocity as the comet as it emerged so i was coping

[compact mesa]

That thing i showed 2 hours ago is consistent with the comets orbital plane, super interesting

[lavish lark]

that thing is probably the tail

it really does not look like a cme and lovejoy did the same thign

[compact mesa]

It would make perfectly sense

[little moon]

It's gonna be cloudy

So I'm gonna cancel it probably

[compact mesa]

Also not great with all the dust storms

[compact mesa]

nah its gone, the residual tail seems to have contained either some tiny fragments or something else

[river patio]

I need a big one ☄️

[compact mesa]

next one is going to be C/2025 R3

towards the end of this month

[lavish lark]

its 5th mag rn and the highest it'll get so arguably the best time is now

at least for imaging

[compact mesa]

it still sits fairly high in pegasus, yeah

[knotty crane]

Super hard for me to get it, it's so low, I have about 15m of imaging time.

[wild sequoia]

i actually have a pretty good viewing window i cba staying up

[compact mesa]

that tail reminds me of C/2025 A6

Maybe i should go out one morning

[long dawn]

Magnitude 4.7 currently

[knotty crane]

Beauty

[compact mesa]

2 locations where I could go

[knotty crane]

I'm thinking mountain peak. Gets me out of the valley and up above everything. Been there a few times. Works out pretty well.

[lavish lark]

whichever one has that clearing in the northeast will work

[compact mesa]

This is all towards the east and which one are you talking about? I was thinking about the left one

[lavish lark]

i see, is this for a composite landscape or just a place to put a larger scope (i dont remember your rig) (also it was for neither i didnt know if one or both were pointed east)

[compact mesa]

I could do composite/landscape And im rocking a Dslr+lens combo

shooting on 50mm

[steel widget]

Yikes I gotta start driving out to capture the damn comet

Doesn't rise high enough to clear my hours before sun gets too bright

[compact mesa]

And both towards the east

[lavish lark]

id argue for the one with the darker sky bc neither are that interesting as a landscape

[compact mesa]

They are both really close to each other, I should've used those young trees as reference and this is both B4

You can match the treeline in the background

I could also go 100% safe and go up on a observation platform that brings me a additional 60m above sea level

[remote kite]

Hi all. Any thoughts on Comet C/1861 G1 (Thatcher)???

[lavish lark]

whatever source is showing that as anything is mistaken

[steel widget]

I hope they don't mean being able to see it 😭 probably more related to the upcoming lyrid meteor shower it created

[lavish lark]

oh neat i didnt know that

kinda hard to have thoughts on a comet like that

[compact mesa]

Just wanted to point out that C/2025 R3 is visible in CCOR1/SOHO imagery if anyone is curious

also a M-class flare going on currently

[lavish lark]

interesting photo opp for southeners in the next few days

(PUNCH spacecraft data)

@hoary basin you should image this

[topaz fulcrum]

👊

[hoary basin]

Clouds

[lavish lark]

ha

[hoary basin]

L North

[steel widget]

https://tenor.com/view/yapping-mal-malwareyml-yapper-yapping-annoying-gif-1665570979243645228

[delicate stone]

Haha clouds 😛

[long dawn]

Accurate

[knotty crane]

Reading about Comet 10P/Tempel. Looks to be the bright comet of June, July, and August 2026. Might reach 8 mag visually.

[lavish lark]

id say mag 8 is all but garenteed tbh, approach in the 80s was similar and it got to 8th

[compact mesa]

seen a new comet pop up that has perihelion on 11th November 2028 that apparently gets decently bright but its really only a southern hemisphere exclusive cause of the orbit

C/2026 C1 (Tsuchinsan)

[wild sequoia]

yea it's at its brightest in PAVO of all places

i don't even have a CHANCE of seeing it

[leaden gulch]

NERF THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE

[compact mesa]

hey at least they dont have 12hr+ Orion

[obsidian ledge]

they have more of the orion complex than i do

[leaden gulch]

Yes, they do.

Not while the solstice in the Taurus/Gemini border, but Orion is about as far north as it'll ever be when accounting for Earth's precession

So in the past 20,000+ years it was true on average

[wanton steppe]

Ban every southerns

[wild sequoia]

fr they have the milky way core, carina/vela, 75% of all comets for some reason, and like almost everything else

sure we have andromeda but like

they have the magellanic clouds

[velvet cipher]

At least we have Cygnus and Auriga

[obsidian ledge]

we have thusnelda once every few years too

[compact mesa]

bless you

[leaden gulch]

Yeah but Cygnus is nerfed compared to Carina

Our view of Carina is on the leading edge of the Milky Way where all the star forming regions are

[compact mesa]

Carina is such a chonker of a H-II region

[leaden gulch]

Our view of Cygnus is on the trailing edge which is clouded out by the dust of dying red giants

[fast tinsel]

we also have cassiopeia, which is giga underrated

[lavish lark]

comet 220p has brightened to 11th magnitude

southeast near saturn

[neon summit]

[lavish lark]

(neither are minr) looks quite bright, no idea how long this will last so get it like today!

[lavish lark]

apparently its magnitude 8?!?!

[compact mesa]

which guy is that?

[lavish lark]

#1160693147521777715 message

[compact mesa]

I feel like this is a error

[lavish lark]

what makes you say that?

[compact mesa]

idk it hasnt been observed too much

[lavish lark]

that 8th mag number comes from photometry off this image

[lavish lark]

to be fair it only got announced yesterday in a single email on a comets mailing list

so theres not that wide of a net

[compact mesa]

I'd love to see people giving it more attention so we can actually get more data points

so I would wait until like friday or something

This mag jump surely will grab some attention

[lavish lark]

fair enough

but also i find it a bit hard to doubt a 300mm scope

[compact mesa]

idk it does stand out

to be fair I also didnt say it was wrong, it just really stands out

[lavish lark]

well the comet has certainly gotten much brighter

theres very few ways to confuse an 8th-11th mag comet for a 18th one

[compact mesa]

anyways next up should be 10P and 24P

[delicate stone]

Where even is it located rn?

[compact mesa]

220P?

[delicate stone]

yes

[compact mesa]

Pisces near saturn

early early morning

[delicate stone]

ahh 🙁 not visible for me

[compact mesa]

11 degrees at 04:00:00

for me

[lavish lark]

another 8.2nd mag report

[delicate stone]

[fierce grotto]

ill be up until 5 i could probably catch a few frames (30mm aperture)

[fierce grotto]

30 second sub

[compact mesa]

220P, right?

I mean thats really not the usual Mag 16

[delicate stone]

A lot of increase in magnitude. Is the comet fumin or something?

[compact mesa]

never been observed on this guy before so I think its a little little odd

@lavish lark hell it even got a subtle ion tail

*not mine

[delicate stone]

hmm hopefully it is still bright in august.

[compact mesa]

it would sit so much nicer as well

[delicate stone]

Yeah that'd be around 30 degrees alt. Pretty ok

[compact mesa]

going to sit in Taurus which is really great for me

[delicate stone]

Thats gonna be purrrfect