MSGID: 1:153/757.0 c98632c4
TZUTC: -0700
CHRS: LATIN-1 2
                        Astronomy Picture of the Day

    Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our
      fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation
                    written by a professional astronomer.

                                2024 August 1

                      Comet Olbers over Kunetice Castle
   Image Credit & Copyright: Petr Hor+ílek / Institute of Physics in Opava

   Explanation: A visitor to the inner solar system every 70 years or so
   Comet 13P/Olbers reached its most recent perihelion, or closest
   approach to the Sun, on June 30 2024. Now on a return voyage to the
   distant Oort cloud the Halley-type comet is recorded here sweeping
   through northern summer night skies over historic Kunetice Castle,
   Czech Republic. Along with a broad dust tail, and brighter coma, this
   comet's long ion tail buffeted by storms and winds from the Sun, is
   revealed in the composite of tracked exposures for comet and sky, and
   fixed exposures for foreground landscape recorded on July 28. The comet
   is about 16 light-minutes beyond the castle and seen against faint
   background stars below the northern constellation Ursa Major. The
   hilltop castle dates to the 15th century, while Heinrich Olbers
   discovered the comet in 1815. Captured here low in northwestern skies
   just after sunset Comet Olbers, for now, offers skywatchers on planet
   Earth rewarding telescopic and binocular views. Comet 13P/Olbers next
   perihelion passage will be in 2094.

                   Tomorrow's picture: martian chronicles
     __________________________________________________________________

       Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP)
            NASA Official: Amber Straughn Specific rights apply.
                   NASA Web Privacy, Accessibility Notices
                      A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC,
                           NASA Science Activation
                             & Michigan Tech. U.

--- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-7
 * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (1:153/757)
SEEN-BY: 1/19 16/0 19/37 90/1 105/81 106/201 123/130 129/305 134/100
SEEN-BY: 142/104 153/135 143 148 757 6809 7083 7715 203/0 218/700
SEEN-BY: 218/840 221/1 6 242 360 226/30 227/114 229/110 114 206 307
SEEN-BY: 229/317 400 426 428 470 664 700 240/5832 266/512 280/5003
SEEN-BY: 280/5006 282/1038 291/111 301/1 320/119 219 319 2119 322/757
SEEN-BY: 322/762 335/364 341/66 342/200 396/45 423/81 460/58 633/280
SEEN-BY: 712/848 5020/400 5075/35
PATH: 153/757 221/6 1 320/219 229/426