Comet P12 Pons/Brooks Taken by MaryBeth Kiczenski on April 1, 2024 @ Eagle Harbor, MI (Source: Spaceweather.com Realtime Image Gallery) “I could see it naked eye once my eyes adjusted–but barely!” she says. “My camera had no trouble, though. This is a stack of 20 images, 30-seconds each.” Comet 12P is approaching the sun for a close encounter later this month. Its increasing brightness and proximity to the sun means it might be visible from the path of totality during the April 8th solar eclipse. Photos of a comet inside the Moon’s shadow are very rare! A tip for eclipse photographers: Take two cameras–one for the sun, and another for Comet 12P. You might be glad you did.
SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: APRIL 4, 2024
THE ‘DEVIL COMET’ IS NOW A NAKED-EYE OBJECT: Suddenly, amateur astronomers are seeing a naked-eye comet in the evening sky. It’s Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, also known as the ‘devil comet‘. Waiting for next Monday’s solar eclipse in Mexico, Petr Horálek photographed the comet last night and found it much brighter than the last time he saw it.
