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The comet is not heading directly toward the sun. Search the web for orbit of this comet and you’ll see. The ion tail will point away from the sun but it doesn’t mean the comet is heading that way. The direction of any dust tail cannot be determined easily from a 2D photograph but looking at the orbit online it’s dust tail may in fact be behind the comet as it is approaching us and perihelion. Apparently this comet has a retrograde orbit.
I’m going to try and find the orbital elements of this comet and import them into an old piece of software I have called Dance of the Planets. I can then view the orbit from any point in space including 3D as well as any point on earth at any time. I have not found any modern program that can do this as well or as good.
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