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Comet Lemmon’s nucleus and tail pictured against the distant starfield beyond. (Image credit: Brennan Gilmore)<\/p>\n
Astrophotographer Brennan Gilmore has captured spectacular views of the solar wind stripping a vast section from C\/2025 A6 (Lemmon)’s tail, as the icy wanderer continues to brighten ahead of its close approach to Earth on Oct. 21.<\/p>\n
Top Camera Pick: Nikon Z9<\/p>\n
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(Image credit: Andy Hartup)<\/p>\n
Looking to photograph Comet Lemmon? Try the Nikon Z9<\/a>, one of the top-performing digital cameras ever made and delicious overkill for astrophotography and landscapes. Get yours today.<\/a><\/p>\n Comet Lemmon has brightened dramatically since its discovery on Jan. 3,, raising hopes that it could become a spectacular naked eye comet in October as it nears the closest point to the sun in its 1,350-year orbit on Nov. 8 \u2014 a point known as perihelion.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Gilmore’s image gives us a spectacular view of Comet Lemmon’s glowing green coma as it passed close to the bright star TW Leonis Minoris in the constellation Leo Minor on Oct. 4. A long luminous tail stretches away from the comet’s nucleus, as material ejected from the comet<\/a> reflects the light of the nearby sun.<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n A comet’s tail is constantly being blown by the steady stream of charged particles emanating from the sun collectively as the “solar wind<\/a>“. As such, it will always point away from the sun<\/a>, rather than simply trailing a comet’s direction of travel, like the exhaust trail of an aircraft.<\/p>\n C\/2025 A6 (Lemmon) – 60 Minute Timelapse – 2 October 2025 – YouTube Watch On <\/a><\/p>\n Gilmore released a stunning 60-minute timelapse of Comet Lemmon as a colossal section of its tail was buffeted and stripped away by the solar wind on Oct. 2, during a spectacular disconnection event. The images were taken using a Takahashi Epsilon 130D Newtonian telescope in conjunction with a ZWO astronomy camera from Cismont, Virginia.<\/p>\n Comet Lemmon continues to brighten, with some observations posted by the Comet Observation Database (COBS)<\/a> run by the Crni Vrh Observatory in Slovenia, putting its brightness at +5.1, which would make it detectable as an extremely dim object to the unaided eye from a dark sky location.<\/p>\n Be sure to check out our finder’s guide<\/a> if you’re hoping to lay eyes on Comet Lemmon as it brightens further in October and read our tips on how to photograph a comet<\/a> if you want to create a permanent memory of the wandering body before it disappears from our skies,<\/p>\n Editor’s Note: If you would like to share your astrophotography with Space.com’s readers, then please send your photo(s), comments, and your name and location to spacephotos@space.com. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Comet Lemmon’s nucleus and tail pictured against the distant starfield beyond. (Image credit: Brennan Gilmore) Astrophotographer Brennan Gilmore…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,128,285],"class_list":{"0":"post-213608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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