Live Video of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS Setting in the West

[@loismiller7742]

I am in N California. This is exactly what it looked like. The moon was really bright here. I sat in front of the house where my eyes could focus in more darkness. Also, I watched through my iPhone, night view and took photos on a 3 second timer at 3x. Magnificent. The show lasted for about an hour. I had coastal mts in the horizon, so I lost that last part of the descent. I’ll be out there tonight!

[@GLICKMIRE]

Thank you for the tips. Will try again tonight.

[@loismiller7742]

Great! I was out tonight and was still awed. The moon was brighter, so the horizon @ 8 PM was really faint to the eye. I could see it on my phone

[@loismiller7742]

@@GLICKMIRElet me know if you saw it!

[@GLICKMIRE]

@@loismiller7742 Still no luck. Must be too much light pollution around here. Thanks for the assistance anyway.

[@mphomariummatloga5373]

Thank you for sharing. It's so beautiful.

[@zillabeast]

Got out and saw it tonight! Solid two hours of viewing. It was awesome!

[@3krazykidsmom238]

Saw it in alabama 3 nights. The first time i wasnt even looking. My daughter and i were on a bike ride, and we enjoy😢 looking at the sunset. So we were looking, and i was like, wait, what is that ?? I showed my daughter and came back home and told my husband. Then i got to looking online and found out about the comet. The next night i saw it also was super visible to the naked eye. This was the 11 and 12 of 0ct. We had a few real cloudy days where we couldn't see anything. The last 2 times we saw the comet, it was harder to see. Still very awesome!!

[@uwekonnigsstaddt524]

Cloudy in Miami, Florida. Even after hurricane Milton, we are still getting rain and a cloudy sky. Thanks for sharing

[@eunicatati2838]

I am in SA , have been watching it for a couple of nights, it does shine very bright and looks closer than planet Mars

[@tubalcain1039]

Found it with low power binoculars at 10 minutes to 8pm. Quite beautiful ghost of the heavens. A holy experience.

[@LateNightAstronomy]

I'm glad you were able to see it.

[@tubalcain1039]

@@LateNightAstronomy It is easy to see under dark skies as soon as the sun sets and it gets dark. I missed comet Kohoutek in '74, West in '75 and Halley's in '86. Saw Hayakutake '96,Hale-Bopp '97,Neowise 2020 and this one.

[@dawg40fn]

I remember seeing the Hale Bopp comet in 1997 it was huge.

[@Cupo666]

It’s been cloudy the past two nights in the PNW so I’ve been looking for live video. Thanks for sharing this

[@stevemyers7698]

I finally saw it tonight, that is exactly what I saw. Been looking for a week, now I can’t until see it.

[@dvpMay]

Thank you for this. How fantastic! I’m in SE Florida and really have no possibility to see the comet.

[@jansmith5511]

My opinion is that is a ship hidden as a comet. Pick up supplies from earth and roll out. So many secrets.

[@veronicafleitas412]

Wow! Love the video, with crickets chirping in the background. I’ve seen the comet from the 15th to the 18

[@LateNightAstronomy]

Glad you were able to see it!

[@Barbarakogler-o4d]

Thank you

[@LateNightAstronomy]

You're welcome

[@roberthennessey5702]

Cloudy here in New England…was looking forward too seeing it.

[@gullito-z6t]

Unfortunately I couldn't see it, but I saw and remember well the three comets towards the end of the last millennium, Halley visible only with a telescope. Hyakutake, immense and very spectacular comet, was stretched about 80 degrees across the northern sky from Polaris to south, with a very wide tail spread across the sky. Lastly the bright and beautiful Hale Bopp. Hyakutake remains unforgettable and it will be back in 100.000 years

[@LateNightAstronomy]

Great observations. I am not familary with Hyakutake. Was it a Southern Hemisphere comet?

[@gullito-z6t]

@@LateNightAstronomy I'm in north hemisphere, as I wrote before it stretched in the sky from Polaris to south horizon.

[@gullito-z6t]

@@LateNightAstronomy It was so close to the Earth, that you could see its fast proper motion across the sky to the naked eye. It's coma was four full moon diameter.

[@marcuslucchese2856]

Cloudy in Brazil (rainy season). Hope to see it in the next days.

[@MPT14]

1988 ako ipinanganak when i was elementary nakakita ako nyan sa bohol im 35 years old now...

[@trodgers75]

Where are you located?

[@LateNightAstronomy]

I took this video from Virginia.

[@JaxesGame]

❤ I'm looking at it now wow what a streak that tail is sometimes❤

[@brianb2210]

Flat earthers probably thinks it makes a left turn at some point.

[@YellowFace-lb8go]

I saw the comet on this past Tuesday

[@sakshikhurana4404]

Cloudy in Vancouver Too!😢

[@lisaswaine2368]

I got fantastic video in Ireland

[@LateNightAstronomy]

I bet that was a great view!

[@GLICKMIRE]

I went out tonight, had a clear sky and good view down to the horizon between Venus and where the sun set. Sat there until 45 minutes after sunset, scanned the sky with good binoculars, and saw nothing. Will try again tomorrow.

[@LateNightAstronomy]

It has been popping into view for me between 30 and 45 minutes after the sun sets.

[@loismiller7742]

I almost missed it too, BUT WOW! Here was my experience: It started @ 30-40 min after sunset ( check the “timeL” last night it was about 7:15 when I saw the first hint of it. Find Venus, can’t miss it in left of the night sky. Look to the right of Venus a little higher up in the sky. It starts to show as a little cloudy grey wiggle spot of cloudy something, an odd looking tiny spot of movement. Look a bit southwest just about the arc of how the sunset, high in the sky. It follows the track of how the sun sets as s it falls and descends really slowly. It descends to the horizon like the sun, only slower. Keep watching, it comes out of nowhere. Use your iPhone the camera lens is better than our eye lens to see it. The phone camera lets in more light, like with viewing the aurora. I got incredible pics, even better than view with camera, I turned off flash, set 3 sec timer, at 3x distance. Hold still, don’t breathe or use a tripod. The show lasted about an hour before it fell behind the coastal range of mts here in N CA at the horizon. I live in the foothills of Butte Co near Lake Oroville. Good luck, I hope this helped.

[@GLICKMIRE]

@@loismiller7742 Appreciate the tips. Will use this info when I go out again tonight.

[@FlatEarth-ps8qm]

Comets a fixed object in the sky dome. It moves the same speed and directions as all the stars .

[@LateNightAstronomy]

It's moving a good bit faster than the background stars if you do long exposure photography that can make it a tricky target to capture.

[@NorthForkFisherman]

Some clouds to the west in KS, but they parted. I couldn't get my DLSR on it before it was set. Still, a wonder to watch.

[@fredorrell1273]

I saw it 3 different nights in Utah from relatively dark skies. Unfortunately there was haze (maybe smoke) each night. I did manage to get a few pictures I’m still processing. I might post them at some point if they are worthy.

[@LateNightAstronomy]

Sorry for the haze but I'm glad you were able to catch it! Please share your images with me over on instagram.

[@MrJason2143]

I'm looking to get into astronomy with my kids, and found a used Orion Skyquest XT8 for $300. Do you still recommend this telescope, given how old it is, and used?

[@drudrgreen1417]

Yep its pretty good.I use skywatcher dob 8(with plenty lens) and its amazing.I am satisfied with it.

[@LateNightAstronomy]

Nothing better than an 8 inch dobsonian to get into the hobby! If it's in good shape that's a fair price (you could always haggle down to $250 to see if that's a possibility) . Be sure to check the mirrors before final purchase.

[@cowgirljane3316]

We here in North Texas have been in a drought, hardly a cloud in the sky for days. So what happened? We had high clouds (contrails) spread across the west and southwest horizon.

[@myutube5882]

Make sure the brightness on your phone is up and turn out the lights for best viewing experience.

[@LateNightAstronomy]

Good advice! Thank you!

[@vikmehndiratta6429]

Could not see it last night from Los Angeles. It was a bit hazy around the horizon. Will try again tonight.

[@LateNightAstronomy]

Yeah, clouds have hurt me in Virginia the past two nights. I'll make another attempt at it tonight.

[@david267716]

Ok so I live in Spring Hill Florida and must have spent over an hour outside trying to spot this thing with no luck so from what I heard I’m to look to the south west near Venus and should spot it am I looking in the correct area. Also when you spot it does it just appear out of nowhere or is it always there and visible when it gets dark?

[@marilynruggeberg]

Did you see this with the naked eye? Thank you for sharing ❤

[@juddsansaver9264]

Where are you?

[@billyreeves8315]

Im in Utah and ive had multiple clear night's but still no luck finding it. Ive been super disappointed not wanting to miss this once in a lifetime opportunity. Not really sure what my issue is for not being able to see it. Ive put alot of time trying so i dont know what else to do.

[@cynthiamccullough3718]

Where in Utah are you? I have a friend in SLC, and the light pollution is just too much for him to see it. His phone camera was able to capture it, though, but it was still faint.

[@billyreeves8315]

@@cynthiamccullough3718 Im in the same area and yes we've had some forest fires recently and yea I suppose that could have been bad enough to impair sight of it. I tried again tonight also still with no luck though. Probably missed my chance at this point i guess

[@sirloin869]

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is from the Oort Cloud-the invisible bubble that's home to countless space objects: "invisible, to whom...

[@F14AB]

Where at are you located?

[@LateNightAstronomy]

I'm in Virginia!

[@F14AB]

@@LateNightAstronomy thank you!

[@michellewestphal8663]

What is the flickering star toward the top of the screen?

[@jansmith5511]

Drone/ black satellite

[@nickbarth2442]

Come on, come on......pleeeease hit us!

[@The_only_one_scar_king]

I think I saw it in NJ

[@rbebut1]

How come these comets travel so fast without any fuel? What do we got to learn from this?

[@PeggyCarr-c8k]

The comet IS the fuel, burning in the friction from the fall, if I understand it, right. And we can learn "Pride goes before a fall." May we all learn and not fall.

[@goldenagex]

Momentum + space(vacuum)

[@rbebut1]

@@goldenagex Hahahahaha

[@jorgecas5678]

Cloudy in Oviedo,Spain😭

[@IAmFastXSonic]

I saw it

[@stephb1676]

What time was this ?? Amazing, cloudy here most nights. Thank you for posting ❤️🌠✨️✈️

[@jansmith5511]

Possible chemtrail plane to block it.... 😊

[@VeronicaGee-j8b]

My w as was we was swawssww

[@stevencasteel6799]

Most overhyped thing I've seen, and I've seen some nice ones.

[@pamelajohnson4653]

Really easy. Just captured it with my Freaking Samsung. Knew where to look, when. The experts? Bwahahahaha