Comet C/2019 Y4

[bojan]

https://phys.org/news/2020-03-comet-atlas.html

[Saturnine]

Thanks for the news about C/2019 Y4. Have known about it for a while and was aware that it was brightening more than predicted but had not seen the orbital map for post perihelion. doesn't seem like we will get a great view from the southern hemisphere though, unfortunately.

[bojan]

It will be visible before sunrise after 1/6

[astroron]

I hope it is not like Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) which crawled along my horizon just clearing it when it was close to the Sun.
I think this one is at perihelion wholly in the northern hemisphere and below the horizon from my location.:(

[DarkArts]

Comet ATLAS may have started disintegrating:

https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/comet-atlas-will-it-become-a-naked-eye-object/

https://earthsky.org/space/how-to-see-bright-comet-c-2019-y4-atlas

Oh well, it wasn't going to be that great a view from down under anyway.