Mokusatsu
14-04-2023, 11:15 PM
I feel like I'm going insane.
I just looked up in the sky and there is what appears to be an extremely bright (mag 3, ish) comet with a long tail in Canis Minor.
I can't find any reference to it.
I've just spent half an hour looking at it with binoculars, telescope and naked eye and there it is.
This is one of the brightest "comets" I've seen in years, but it snuck up.
Is it a comet or has there been an airburst or something creating a long comet-like rather bright object?
Have I just missed the memo and the rest of the world already knows about it?
My observing site is Burekup, WA. (Near Bunbury)
I just looked up in the sky and there is what appears to be an extremely bright (mag 3, ish) comet with a long tail in Canis Minor.
I can't find any reference to it.
I've just spent half an hour looking at it with binoculars, telescope and naked eye and there it is.
This is one of the brightest "comets" I've seen in years, but it snuck up.
Is it a comet or has there been an airburst or something creating a long comet-like rather bright object?
Have I just missed the memo and the rest of the world already knows about it?
My observing site is Burekup, WA. (Near Bunbury)