Comet Swan is now visible and could be the best in years
The Comet C / 2020 F8 SWAN was captured by the Australian Siding Spring telescope.
Esposito Raffaele / Telescopic Siding Spring / Spaceweather.com
It seems to be a season for comets who tease Skywatcher with their magnificent tails like elusive cosmic peacocks. The comet atlas seemed like a big deal Earlier this year before it disintegrated and failed. But just as this promising space snowball was about to leave, The comet C / 2020 F8 SWAN was discovered End of March.
Now Comet Swan could fulfill the promise of a rare night sky show that Atlas did not deliver.
Swan could already be visible to those with exquisitely dark skies and keen eyes. Others may also be able to see it with binoculars.
astronomer Con Stoitsis said on Twitter Some predictions show that the comet will continue to brighten in the coming days.
“It should be an ‘obvious’ target to the naked eye in mid-May,” he said.
The comet comes closest to Earth on May 13 and comes closest to the Sun on May 27.
There are a number of tools online – TheSkyLive is a great place to start – to help you find the comet swan in the night sky. And of course that comet also has a Twitter account to follow.
Remember that comets are notoriously capricious, as the Comet Atlas has shown, and that Swan can go from quick brightening to fragmentation and fading at any time.
With that in mind, it’s probably a good idea to try now. You can search for it and keep an eye out for this week at the same time Eta Aquarid meteor shower, which comes from the remains of another space snowball, the famous Halley’s comet.
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