October 16, 2024
62P/Tsuchinshan – catch it if you can!
For the first time in my life I’ve seen a comet unassisted – with just the naked eye. Oh my Gerasimenko! ->
Greetings all – from China’s Qinghai province, where right now up above our heads we can see the 62P/Tsuchinshan comet without a telescope. And it’s going to be flying past Earth for around another week!…
Like I say, I hadn’t seen one before, since they’re a rather rare phenomenon – even though there are plenty of them; for example, there’s the famous Halley’s Comet, which we won’t see again until July 28, 2061 (if clouds don’t get in the way).
So when will 62P return to our cosmic skies? Some astronomers think… never!
