{"id":8647,"date":"2024-10-13T11:38:49","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T11:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/13\/comet-of-the-century-captured-in-photos-across-the-globe\/"},"modified":"2024-10-13T11:38:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T11:38:49","slug":"comet-of-the-century-captured-in-photos-across-the-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/13\/comet-of-the-century-captured-in-photos-across-the-globe\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Comet of the century\u2019 captured in photos across the globe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stargazers across the globe managed to capture the “comet of the century” as it whizzed across the northern hemisphere. <\/p>\n

Comet A3<\/strong>, also known as Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, did not disappoint astronomers who were anticipating how bright and visible it might be as it came within approximately 44 million miles of Earth on Saturday.<\/p>\n

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Snaps from across the UK, US and Asia showed the comet within the inner solar system.<\/p>\n

The phenomenon roughly occurs every 80,000 years – meaning the comet would have last been visible from Earth when the Neanderthals were walking the planet.<\/p>\n

It is believed the comet came from the Oort Cloud – a giant spherical shell that surrounds our solar system and contains billions of objects including comets – according to the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS).<\/p>\n

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The comet has been billed as the “comet of the century” in some quarters, the RAS said.<\/p>\n

It was discovered independently in January 2023 by two observatories – China’s Tsuchinshan (Purple Mountain) Observatory and South Africa’s ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) – and was named after them.<\/p>\n

The comet A3 was previously visible from Earth between 27 September and 2 October when it travelled across the southern hemisphere.<\/p>\n

And don’t worry if you missed it last night, it should still be visible until 30 October.<\/p>\n

Dr Robert Massey, deputy director of the RAS, said getting a photo of the comet may be possible, particularly if using a digital single-lens reflex camera.<\/p>\n

If you have a good mobile phone camera and a small telescope, he added, you can “hold the mobile phone against the eyepiece of the telescope and try to take a picture that way”.<\/p>\n

Dr Massey said that method “worked well” with comets like NEOWISE in 2020.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n

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