🌌 Comet Alert: 12P/Pons-Brooks Now Visible to Naked Eye! ☄️Exciting news! Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks has brightened enough to be seen without a telescope! 🎉 Look up in the evening sky and spot it in the constellation Andromeda.To help you locate the comet, try using the Sky Tonight app — it's free and user-friendly. 🔭With a current brightness of 5.5 magnitude and an angular size comparable to 1/3 of the Full Moon's disk, this comet can be seen outside of light-polluted cities.Observers using 10x50 binoculars have reported seeing the comet's coma around its nucleus and a faint tail.Catch a glimpse of the comet near Delta Andromeda star and about 7 degrees south of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). But hurry! The bright Moon may start to interfere with observations after March 14.📸 The first image is taken by @petrhoralek (Petr Horálek)#12p #ponsbrooks #brightcomet #comet2024 #starwalk #devilcomet
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