Here she comes, the periodic comet 10P/Tempel 2 returns to the Sun on 2nd August 2026. But there is more. Just last few days, the comet offered unusual view to its razor trail, a pancake of gravel-sized debris that has settled into the comet’s orbit over thousands of years. This differs from a tail, which…
Read more
Discovered in September 2025, the comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) seems to be promising a nice comet of April 2026. I was also lucky to see this beautiful one. Its path nearby the Sun (with perihelion of 19th April 2026) and the Earth then (with perigee on 26th October 2026) brought several truly unusual moments in…
Read more
Discovered in July 2025, the comet 3I/ATLAS became very popular during the year as it was only the third confirmed interstellar object to be observed in our Solar System. I was also lucky to see this one beauty too. Here are my occasional observations. 24th December 2025 It was only early in the morning of…
Read more
Discovered in January 2025, the comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) seems to be promising a nice comet of October 2025. I was also lucky to see this one beauty. Its path nearby the Sun (with perihelion of 8th November 2025) and the Earth then (with perigee on 21st October 2025) brought several truly unusual moments in…
Read more
This morning, on 5 August 2025, about 0:45 UTC, I was lucky to capture a nice view of the (still faint) comet C/2025 K1 ATLAS against the Milky Way in wide view with Collinder 399 (a.k.a. Brocchi’s Cluster or ‘Coat Hanger’). What a nice photo-opp! The comet itself moves very quickly in the sky as…
Read more
Discovered in October 2024, the comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) seems to be promising bright comet of 2025 (it survives the heat of the sunny). I was also lucky to see this one from the Northern Hemisphere despite the fact, that the best show brought only for Southerners. 16 January 2025 If this was my last…
Read more
Discovered in January 2023, the comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) seems to be promising bright comet of 2024 (and very likely one of the brightest of last decades). I was also lucky to see this one with about 1-kilometer-sized nucleus, which can be considered as not so big, but also not that small among other known…
Read more
