Comet SWAN is getting brighter, Comet ATLAS is crumbling, Watch Planets and may be take a photograph скачать в хорошем качестве

Comet SWAN is getting brighter, Comet ATLAS is crumbling, Watch Planets and may be take a photograph

Comet SWAN is getting brighter every day. It is currently in constellation of Aquarius. Currently it is reported as Mag 6 and NASA JPL is expecting around Mag 8. On the closest point it is 0.43 AU which is 64 million KM from the Sun, it is quite far and not coming to hit Earth. Lower the magnitude, brighter it is. You can see objects around Mag 10 or lower with a binocular. Generally, around Mag 3 are lower, it is visible without a telescope. We are expecting this Comet might reach Mag 3 in the last two weeks of May. Very bright stars in the sky are with Mag 2 or lower. Comet Atlas was supposed to go to -3.5 which would have been bright to see without a need a of a telescope. How can locate Comet SWAN? This comet is mainly visible in southern hemisphere in the morning time before the sunrise on the East side or just before sunset on West side. Look for this comet in the last two weeks for May. Comet PANSTAARS orbital period is 500,000 years. It is incredible! It is brighter with a Mag of 8.5. You need at least a 60-90 MM telescope to see this comet or take pictures with it. I tried to take a picture of it and it looks decently bright. Comet ATLAS is now broken into more than two dozen pieces. Earlier reports say they were only 5. So it is crumbling into pieces as it approaches the inner solar system. These kind of astronomical events of comets breaking into pieces in front of our eyes are relatively rare. May be you can see these events one or two for each decade. Most of these comets are Ice and Gas and they come close to the inner solar system and closer to the sun, they may breakup. Comets are either originated from the Oort Cloud beyond Neptune which is outer solar system or from the Kuiper belt which is half way between us and the nearest star. What makes it exciting is we are seeing the material from the time of the beginning of the solar system. Number of comets that we are discovering potentially increasing year by year. We only knew 6700 Comets. There are lot more comets than that. That makes it quite interesting. So before SWAN approaches, I recommend you to watch Venus in the evening sky and Mars, Saturn and Jupiter in the morning Sky. Here is my telescope equipment I used to take this picture - Celestron Astromaster 130 - https://bit.ly/2YqbbIj Celestron RASA 11" - https://tinyurl.com/y782p748 Celestron CGX Mount - https://tinyurl.com/ybdqyecg You can connect with me here:   / raysastrophotography     / raysastrophotography   http://www.raysastrophotography.com/   / raysastrophoto1   #Comet #SWAN #ATLAS