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                                2024 March 9
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                    Comet Pons-Brooks in Northern Spring
   Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]Petr Horálek / [5]Institute of Physics
                                  in Opava

   Explanation: As spring approaches for northern skygazers [6]Comet
   12P/Pons-Brooks is growing brighter. [7]Currently visible with small
   telescopes and binoculars the Halley-type comet could reach naked eye
   visibility in the coming weeks. Seen despite a foggy atmosphere, the
   comet's green coma and long tail hover near the horizon, in this
   well-composed [8]deep night skyscape from Revuca, Slovakia recorded on
   March 5. In the sky above the Halley-type comet, the Andromeda (right)
   and Triangulum galaxies [9]flank bright star Mirach, beta star of the
   constellation Andromeda. The two spiral galaxies are members of our
   local galaxy group and over 2.5 million light-years distant. Comet
   Pons-Brooks is a periodic [10]visitor to the inner Solar System and
   less than 14 light-minutes away. Reaching its perihelion on April 21,
   this comet should be visible in the sky [11]during the April 8 total
   solar eclipse.

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References

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   2. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2403/2024_03_05_Pons-Brooks_Revuca_1500px.png
   3. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply
   4. https://www.petrhoralek.com/#about-1
   5. https://www.slu.cz/phys/en/
   6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12P/Pons–Brooks
   7. https://starwalk.space/en/news/pons-brooks-comet-2024
   8. https://www.petrhoralek.com/?p=23932
   9. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150926.html
  10. https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/comets/
  11. https://earthsky.org/tonight/12-p-comet-pons-brooks-outburst-millennium-falcon-bright-2024-eclipse/
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  23. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html
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