Jacquie Milner will take you through everything you need to know about Comet 2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, which is just about to reach perihelion and will be in the evening skies in early October.
During September it’s still climbing out of the pre-dawn twilight for us in the southern hemisphere, but that will all change rapidly as September changes to October.
This comet is not going to be as spectacular as originally hoped, but it should still put on a reasonable show – at least, a better show than the last couple of comets that were over-hyped by the media.
Peter Lieverdink