What a greeting, is it not?

I'll see you, Phos.

Comet Pons Brooks © Fritz Helmet Hemmerich

Comet Pons-Brooks' Swirling Coma via NASA APOD

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks by Babak Tafreshi

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.

A photo of the comet 12P ponce-brook, taken from my bedroom window. In the middle ages, comets were regarded as omens of great change, generally bad ones. It's only after the discovery of their periodic return (during the 15's to 16's hundred) and later discovery of their nature (big balls of mostly ice and some rocks orbiting the sun) that comets stoped to be feared. Despite that, I still find them to be awe-inspiring.

For those interested, this comet is currently visible with a good pair of binoculars or a telescope if you look in the Andromeda constellation (more information on positions and visibility: https://theskylive.com/12p-info) I would have taken more pictures or a better one if the clouds had not been consistently thwarting any attempts at observation in the last week and a half.

2024 March 26

A large comet is shown with its head near the right and a light blue flowing ion tail flowing across into the rest of the image.

Comet Pons-Brooks' Ion Tail

Image Credit & License: James Peirce

Explanation: Comet Pons-Brooks has quite a tail to tell. First discovered in 1385, this erupting dirty snowball loops back into our inner Solar System every 71 years and, this time, is starting to put on a show for deep camera exposures. In the featured picture, the light blue stream is the ion tail which consists of charged molecules pushed away from the comet's nucleus by the solar wind. The ion tail, shaped by the Sun's wind and the comet's core's rotation, always points away from the Sun. Comet 12P/Pons–Brooks is now visible with binoculars in the early evening sky toward the northwest, moving perceptibly from night to night. The frequently flaring comet is expected to continue to brighten, on the average, and may even become visible with the unaided eye -- during the day -- to those in the path of totality of the coming solar eclipse on April 8.

Evening Symphony: Jupiter, Mercury, and the Comet 12P/Pons-Brook at Twilight. ☄️ Image by @xipteras

Lucy Nuka Cola poster Fallout. Devil comet 12P/Pons-Brooks

Fallout 4 TV series is releasing, the solar eclipse will be upon us, the Devil comet 12P/Pons-Brooks shooting across the sky having last been seen in the last century, Autism Awareness Appreciation Acceptance, national unicorn day and the final season of Umbrella Academy all in one month! There's so much more I could include, just mentioning some highlights. It's difficult and bleak times, it's important to find whatever joy we can ❤️ Keep those suffering in your hearts and thoughts ❤️

Drawing that says "Awareness // Acceptance // Appreciation" Graphic by Sophie Reingold. And "the legend of the Unicorn", vintage illustration from 1900.

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

Long Tail of Comet Pons-Brooks ©

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks near NGC 6888

l Michael Jäger l Austria l Jan. 2024

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

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

ESA - ‘Mother of Dragons’ comet visible in the night sky