#pons-brooks

[the-wolf-and-moon]

Comet Pons-Brooks, Slovakia

[blasteffect]

Comet 12P

Potograph taken in Pons-Brooks on the evening of March 16th. The comet is still 151 million miles away and slowly getting closer. The comet is also slowly brightening but also getting lower in the sky after sunset making it more difficult to capture. It will continue to get closer to the Sun over the next few weeks and become more difficult to see.

There was only about 40 mins from the start of darkness after sunset to when the comet set in the northeast. The comet is now magnitude 5, technically making it visible to the naked eye under a very dark sky, but practically speaking you will need binoculars to see it.

Courtesy: Stars Over Bucks

[railwayhistorical]

Pons-Brooks/Jupiter

Just to follow up on the previous two posts: I was not thrilled with what I could see of Pons-Brooks, but was pleasantly surprised when I spied Jupiter with her four large moons present, though did not notice till I opened images on the laptop later.

Two images by Richard Koenig; taken April 5th 2024. The location is Lookout Park, St. Joseph, Michigan.

[alascene]

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks captured April 4th of this year

135mm Rokinon lens

Canon 90D EOS DSLR

[rapscallion-rumble]

Comet12P/Pons-Brooks otherwise known as "The Devil Comet" or "Mother of Dragons Comet"

[spacewonder19]

Intriguing Tail of Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks © Michael Jäger

[without-ado]

Comet Pons-Brooks l Arcan Serifoglu l Mar. 6 to 14, 2024

[quiltofstars]

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks over a week in April 2024 // Thomas Rox

[hermistslaton]

What a greeting, is it not?

I'll see you, Phos.

[astronerdscorner]

Such a long journey

Every 71 years visits this comet called 12P Pons Brooks the inner solar system and passes the sun. At the moment he is close to the sun which leads to its Coma and tail.

I capture it with 51 frames each exposed for 30s.

[adastra-sf]

Comet Pons-Brooks' Swirling Heart

We'll have a special bonus during April 8's total solar eclipse: Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks returns to the inner Solar System and will appear in the daytime only 25 degrees from the Sun as it goes dark.

This image by Jan Erik Vallestad shows the comet's ever-changing ion tail in light blue and its outer coma in green, while red-glowing gas spirals around the coma, likely expelled gas from the giant iceberg of a comet's slowly rotating nucleus.

[the-wolf-and-moon]

Twin Tails of Comet Pons-Brooks

[the-maddest-robot]

A photo of the comet 12P ponce-brook, taken from my bedroom window. In the middle ages, comets were regarded as omens of great change, generally bad ones. It's only after the discovery of their periodic return (during the 15's to 16's hundred) and later discovery of their nature (big balls of mostly ice and some rocks orbiting the sun) that comets stoped to be feared. Despite that, I still find them to be awe-inspiring.

For those interested, this comet is currently visible with a good pair of binoculars or a telescope if you look in the Andromeda constellation (more information on positions and visibility: https://theskylive.com/12p-info) I would have taken more pictures or a better one if the clouds had not been consistently thwarting any attempts at observation in the last week and a half.

[gontagokuhara]

happy eclipse day everybody. dont get caught slipping and go blind staring at the sun

[merelygifted]

ESA - ‘Mother of Dragons’ comet visible in the night sky

[xipteras]

Evening Symphony: Jupiter, Mercury, and the Comet 12P/Pons-Brook at Twilight. ☄️ Image by @xipteras