Site statistics

34509 facts from 176 countries related to 1176 phenomena have been registered in Archive. 2800 of them were solved, another 10665 are under verification for compliance with one of the 319 versions.

6 facts have been added for last 24 hours.

Share your story

You are in "News" section

This section accumulates world news published in the media and concerning facts, phenomena and/or versions.

Comet NEOWISE: still alive and rapidly becoming brighter

Added	Fri, 03/07/2020
Источники	gismeteo.ru
Дата публикации	Fri, 03/07/2020
Версии	The heavenly bodies

July 1, ray Brooks observed the comet through binoculars near Tucson (USA) before sunrise. According to him, its brilliance was about +1, that is, if the comet was in the dark sky, and high enough, it would be a spectacular object easily visible to the naked eye. As noted by Peter Horalek from Czech Republic, July 2, the comet was even brighter — about 0. He also noticed her in the morning, under the rippling noctilucent clouds.

He was able to photograph the comet using a digital camera Canon 6D, despite the haze and clouds on the horizon.

Oscar Martin Mesonero of Salamanca in Spain also saw the comet in the morning twilight. It was taken using a telescope and you can see her fan shaped tail.

This same form was visible in images of the solar Observatory SOHO, made last week.

According to Goralka, we can only hope that NEOWISE will survive a meeting with the Sun, unlike the previous comets, ATLAS and SWAN.

Translated by «Yandex.Translator»