Comet C/2025 R3 PanSTARRS from the dark skies west of Rockhampton. Its tail was passing in front of the Witch Head nebula .
Sky and foreground images taken with a Canon R6 MkII and Samyang 135mm F/2.0 lens. Courtesy Kelvin Hennessy.
Comet MAPS from NASA STEREO Spacecraft, the bright star is Aldebaran. Soon he will be entering the FOV of LASCO C3, which will give us much better images.
Sungrazing Comet MAPS (C/2026 A1) is rapidly approaching the Sun. On April 4, it will pass just 160,000 km (about 0.23 solar radii) above the Sun’s surface—a true death plunge. Astronomers at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, AZ, created a diagram illustrating the comet’s path.
It is still around... C/2026 A1 (MAPS) on March 30. "A challenging observation with a solar elongation of 16.6 degrees". Mag around 7.5. Observation & image credit: Terry Lovejoy, Australia
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Here we go...
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Der Komet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) könnte eines der spektakulärsten Himmelsschauspiele der letzten Jahre werden – wenn er nicht vorher an der Sonne zerbricht.
@JAtanackov Ok, I missed that one. And I missed that there are several comet magnitudes as seen from space... thats a little odd. Because than maybe have to add 2012 S1 (ISON), or C/2003 K7 (SOHO), 1998 J1 (SOHO) ...
New Kreutz comet could be as bright as Venus!
Light curve estimates of Comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS)
predict a peak apparent brightness of magnitude -4.1 in April.
This is almost as bright as Venus
Image is of Comet Ikeya-Seki C/1965 S1 in 1965. A classic Kreutz sungrazer.