{"id":263847,"date":"2025-11-15T06:46:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T06:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/263847\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T06:46:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T06:46:19","slug":"comet-c-2025-k1-atlas-fragmentation-new-image-14-nov-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/263847\/","title":{"rendered":"Comet C\/2025 K1 ATLAS fragmentation: new image &#8211; 14 Nov. 2025."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to a very short window of clear sky, we imaged comet C\/2025 K1 ATLAS again and here we share our view on its broken nucleus.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/c2025k1_14nov2025_c14_2x_masi.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-206727\" class=\"wp-image-206727\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/c2025k1_14nov2025_c14_2x_masi.jpg\" alt=\"Comet C\/2025 K1 ATLAS: a complex structure is visible. 14 Nov. 2025.\" width=\"800\" height=\"726\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-206727\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Comet C\/2025 K1 ATLAS: a complex structure is visible. 14 Nov. 2025.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The image above comes from the sigma-clipping combination of 7, 60-second unfiltered exposures, remotely taken with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virtualtelescope.eu\/the-celestron-360mm-schmidt-cassegrain-telescope-on-paramount-me\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Celestron C14+Paramount ME+SBIG ST-10XME<\/a> robotic unit available as part of the Virtual Telescope Project in Manciano, Italy. Unfortunately, we could take just a few data before clouds covered the whole sky.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Several parts (sub-nuclei or clouds of debris) are still visible, with an interesting arc-like feature on the left, in the solar direction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The picture below shows the outcome from a 20-deg. rotational gradient, centered on the brightest unit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/c2025k1_14nov2025_c14_LS_masi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-206729\" class=\"wp-image-206729\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/c2025k1_14nov2025_c14_LS_masi.jpg\" alt=\"The inner coma after a 20-degrees rotational gradient filtering.\" width=\"800\" height=\"645\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-206729\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The inner coma after a 20-degrees rotational gradient filtering.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We will continue monitoring the future evolution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.virtualtelescope.eu\/solar-system\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Back to \u201cSolar System\u201d page.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Support The Virtual Telescope Project!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Support us!\u00a0Please, donate and receive an EXCLUSIVE, hi-quality image of the record-setting 27 July 2018 total lunar eclipse above the Colosseum and many more pictures, specifically made for supporters like you!<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.virtualtelescope.eu\/donate\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-205552 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763061912_258_Donatebutton.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"26\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thanks to a very short window of clear sky, we imaged comet C\/2025 K1 ATLAS again and here&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-263847","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\/263847","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=263847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}