#Pons-Brooks

[the-wolf-and-moon]

Comet Pons-Brooks, Slovakia

[blasteffect]

Comet 12P

Potograph taken in Pons-Brooks on the evening of March 16th. The comet is still 151 million miles away and slowly getting closer. The comet is also slowly brightening but also getting lower in the sky after sunset making it more difficult to capture. It will continue to get closer to the Sun over the next few weeks and become more difficult to see.

There was only about 40 mins from the start of darkness after sunset to when the comet set in the northeast. The comet is now magnitude 5, technically making it visible to the naked eye under a very dark sky, but practically speaking you will need binoculars to see it.

Courtesy: Stars Over Bucks

[railwayhistorical]

Pons-Brooks/Jupiter

Just to follow up on the previous two posts: I was not thrilled with what I could see of Pons-Brooks, but was pleasantly surprised when I spied Jupiter with her four large moons present, though did not notice till I opened images on the laptop later.

Two images by Richard Koenig; taken April 5th 2024. The location is Lookout Park, St. Joseph, Michigan.

[captain-mako]

Comet12P/Pons-Brooks otherwise known as "The Devil Comet" or "Mother of Dragons Comet"

[without-ado]

Comet Pons-Brooks l Arcan Serifoglu l Mar. 6 to 14, 2024

[spacewonder19]

Long Tail of Comet Pons-Brooks ©

[traverse-our-universe]

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks by Babak Tafreshi

[midnight-moth]

I just think that Phantom will bring Bell those cheeses in the red wax cause look they’re named after you, and then he’ll play with the discarded wax, make little shapes. Bell will then walk around with a pocket full of wax stars and flowers and bugs. He definitely saves them all. And at first he puts them on his windowsill but comes back to a slightly deformed caterpillar because of the sunlight, so he moves them to a bookshelf. He’ll also walk around with a horrible stomach ache because he doesn’t have the heart to tell Phantom that he’s lactose intolerant like most ghouls. Which Phantom hasn’t noticed yet because everyone eats cheese anyway … cause cheese.

[quiltofstars]

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks on March 17, 2024 // astrosymmetry

[astronerdscorner]

Such a long journey

Every 71 years visits this comet called 12P Pons Brooks the inner solar system and passes the sun. At the moment he is close to the sun which leads to its Coma and tail.

I capture it with 51 frames each exposed for 30s.

[hermistslaton]

What a greeting, is it not?

I'll see you, Phos.

[the-wolf-and-moon]

Comet Pons-Brooks

[jaller-nuva]

[adastra-sf]

Comet Pons-Brooks' Swirling Heart

We'll have a special bonus during April 8's total solar eclipse: Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks returns to the inner Solar System and will appear in the daytime only 25 degrees from the Sun as it goes dark.

This image by Jan Erik Vallestad shows the comet's ever-changing ion tail in light blue and its outer coma in green, while red-glowing gas spirals around the coma, likely expelled gas from the giant iceberg of a comet's slowly rotating nucleus.

[without-ado]

Comet Pons-Brooks l Alessandro Cipolat Bares

[spacewonder19]

Intriguing Tail of Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks © Michael Jäger