Comet Leonard’s Long Tail

Chances are high you’ll possibly possibly possibly possibly not survey Comet Leonard’s extraordinarily lengthy tail with a telescope — it became once magnificent too lengthy. You moreover couldn’t survey it with binoculars — aloof too lengthy. Or with your eyes — it became once too dim. Or from a city — the sky became once too radiant. Nonetheless from a dark space with a low horizon — your digital camera may possibly possibly possibly. And aloof may possibly possibly possibly — if the comet survives as of late’s closest come across with the Sun, which happens between the orbits of Mercury and Venus. The featured image became once constituted of two deep and wide-perspective digital camera photos taken from La Palma in the Canary Islands of Spain slack final month. Afterwards, if it survives, what’s left of Comet Leonard’s nucleus will head out of our Photo voltaic System, never to near help.