Check Out This Great View of Comet 96P Machholz, Courtesy of SOHO - by Astroguyz
were known of, prior to the launch of SOHO. It’ll be sad to see this amazing resource coming to a scheduled end in 2025.Comet 96P displayed a fine fantail as it swept through the view. But what’s truly amazing is that the comet seems to have retained some of that brightness as it emerges into the dawn sky in early February. astrophotographer Michael Jaeger managed to nab the comet on the morning of February 5from Martinsberg, Austria.
This week, the comet is hanging low to the east, higher than Mercury but lower than the bright star Altair, which both serve as good markers to find the comet. The comet is moving roughly away from us from our Earthly perspective, which means it will stay about 10 to 15 degrees above the eastern horizon for most ofThe position of the comet low in the dawn sky on the morning of February 9th. Credit: Starry Night.
On a 5.29 year orbit, Comet 96P Machholz has the shortest perihelion distance of any known short period comet. The comet also exhibits a strange carbon- and cyanogen- depletion that suggests that it may actually be a captured extra-solar comet.Comet 96P was discovered by prolific comet hunter on the night of May 12, 1986. Don discovered 12 comets during his sky-watching career. Sadly, we lost Don last year to COVID-19. He was 69, and one of the last of an era of visual comet-hunters.If skies are clear, be sure to brave the early February morning, for a chance to spy Comet 96P Machholz.
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