Comet C/2024 G3 Atlas (aussie.zone)

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The other night I finally got to combine a break in the clouds that kept covering the western skyline with me actually having my camera on me (I'd seen it last weekend at a friends place but didn't have my camera there - definitely fainter now but was still just visible to the naked eye).

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Awesome.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

It's reportedly 'dead' now, which is to say that it's started to break up. So this is the final time anybody will ever see it, which is weird to think about since the last time anyone saw it was about 180,000 years ago.

See: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-23/atlas-comet-how-to-see-c2024g3-swan-song/104849708

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

that's a long time ago in human terms and yet there were humans and someone probably saw it. I kinda feel a connection to that distant someone, a long ago ancestor.

That's cool. 😊

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

💜 yes that makes me happy too

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

That's so cool. 😊

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