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ramnath@nerdpol.ch

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COMET #ZTF HAS ARRIVED: It only took 50,000 years. During the #StoneAge, faraway Comet ZTF (C/2022 E3) began falling toward the inner solar system. Today it finally reached #Earth, only 0.28 AU away. This is what the comet looks like from point-blank range:

"There is a strong curved dust tail, a long blue ion tail, and a vivid green coma," says photographer Michael Jaeger of Weißenkirchen in der Wachau, Austria. "It's a beautiful comet."

The ensemble is now glowing with an integrated magnitude near +4.8. It is barely visible to the naked eye (at best, a faint smudge), but a terrific target for small telescopes. Northern observers are favored. The comet is racing through Camelopardalis (the Giraffe), a constellation near the Big Dipper and the North Star. The best time to look is during the dark hours between midnight and dawn after the Moon has set.
#SUN ERUPTS BIG AT THE #COMET #sonews
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