Four members of CMHASD; John Archer, Gary Hunt, Jo Southgate and Honor Wheeler met up at Top Dartford Road at around 18:30 to see if they could spot comet C2023 A3 Tsuchinshan - ATLAS on the 12th Oct 2024. The rain cleared just in time and the sky was clearing of cloud as they set up. It took about 25 minutes looking but in the end they spotted the comet nucleus with a pair of 8x42 binoculars in the orange glow of the sunset i.e. in the Western sky approx 10 to 20° above the horizon :-)
Below are some fantastic images of the comet taken by Honor. These images were also the 1st ones of the comet to be put on the British Astronomical Association (BAA) website - well done Honor!
