{"id":207309,"date":"2025-10-17T20:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T20:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/207309\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T20:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T20:42:09","slug":"comet-lemmon-seen-shooting-over-breydon-water-in-norfolk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/207309\/","title":{"rendered":"Comet Lemmon seen shooting over Breydon Water in Norfolk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Lukasz Sledzinski captured the images of Comet C\/2025 A6 Lemmon from Breydon Water, Great Yarmouth, on Wednesday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This comet was discovered in Arizona on January 3, 2025.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>The images were taken on Wednesday(Image: Lukasz Sledzinski)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>The comet will come closest to Earth on October 21(Image: Lukasz Sledzinski)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It comes from the Oort Cloud and takes 1,350 years to travel around the sun.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In this current orbit, Comet Lemmon will reach its closest point to Earth &#8211; 55.4 million miles &#8211; on October 21.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greatyarmouthmercury.co.uk\/news\/25547837.shipwreck-lowestoft-fishing-boat-resurfaces-hemsby\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Century-old shipwreck buried beneath sand uncovered by tides on Norfolk beach<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  But, according to Space.com, it is already at a magnitude of +5.2, which is close enough to be visible to the human eye if the sky is especially dark.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>The comet flew over Breydon Water, Great Yarmouth(Image: Lukasz Sledzinski)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Anyone with a pair of binoculars will be able to see it shortly after sunset.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  As Mr Sledzinski&#8217;s photos show, Comet Lemmon has a blue-ish tail that appears roughly double the diameter of the moon.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The photographer said: &#8220;The weather was far from perfect, so this is just 71 frames stitched together &#8211; but not bad considering the clouds.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lukasz Sledzinski captured the images of Comet C\/2025 A6 Lemmon from Breydon Water, Great Yarmouth, on Wednesday. This&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-207309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}