How To See Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks | The Best Comet of 2024? | “The Devil Comet” 

Last night, 3/28/2024, I drove over an hour west of Dallas/Fort Worth to get some relative darkness to see Comet Pons Brooks. I have Vortex 12X50 binoculars with a tripod, but wish I'd bought some much cheaper, much more powerful Celestron Skymaster 20X80s instead! I'm new to this & it took me a while to find the comet even though I knew where to look. Right now, with my 12X50s, only an hour & a half from the bright DFW metroplex, Pons Brooks is only a greenish fuzz that looks like a spot of mold. It'll look better in a few weeks. The problem with these binoculars is I'm now fascinated enough I'm about to buy a telescope! I'm considering a Celestron NexStar 8SE. Anyway, I sat in my folding chair for over _two hours_ jumping from Jupiter & it's moons (wow!), to Orion, to tracking one of about 100 satellites I saw streaking across the sky, back to Comet Pons Brooks thinking it'd get brighter as it set (nope), then the moon rose behind me & I had something new to examine! I could stare at all this for hours!

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i saw this a few nights ago! first comet i've ever actually seen, to say i was excited was an understatement lol

I managed to see it with binoculars and did my research to find it. I'm more upper the states of the United States and the comet was just behind it between west-southern. It was kind of hard to see with the naked-eye but seeing it was cool it had a brownish/red color in the middle/center of it with white color around it while having blue/green at the end. Not sure because the sun made it different colors but for sure looks different to airplanes flying when one was flying over me while I was watching the comet and after the comet show was over.

Oh man, I’m going to Texas for the solar eclipse. Debating on taking my camera or just enjoying the show. I was at the one in 2017 in Tennessee and it was truly a life changing experience.

Thanks so much! Cant wait to see both the comet & the eclipse!

Omg I’ve seen this and had no idea what it was! Thank you for the best explanation!

Thanks for the reminder.

Thx for the info!

I seen it on April 21,2024 tonight in Stockton California I recorded with my Samsung S24 Ultra 5 g wow.

Thank you. Just in time for it’s Jupiter pass... weather permitting of course 😄👍 🕊🇬🇧

Neat.

i saw it!

It’s you!!!! The dark story guy. Occult

Thanks. I will send a photo of comet if possible from Port Macquarie Australia 🇦🇺

Im not sure but I believe I just saw one of the two with bare eyes. Man, this is really happening!

Saw it tonight in Michigan and captured a photo however no viable tail

that ksp background music is the best 😂

What is that Software where you See that Comet with the date and time? This is the first Video what i see about you sry if you already talk about it.

From Australia, never tried looking for comet's till now. Is 6.30pm the best time. Or is it just in the sky over a week and I can view it whenever as long as it's dark?

Tried yesterday 4/5/24 , I’m near Chicago. We have clear skies, I was in a farming area . Couldn’t find it I should have been about 120 degrees off Jupiter according to the star chart apps. I could see the Pleiades with the naked eye and better with the binoculars, just above Jupiter. Hoping for clear skies on the twelfth.

will it be visible with a 4 inch reflector in *bortle 6* skies?

Hope everyone enjoys the eclipse and the comet!!

Hi can I do astrophotography or some sort with the Nikon P1000 125zoom 300mm.Iam in Brooklyn,NY.IWe have a national park Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn were we can go.

I am new at your Channel

0:51 right now it should be near the moon and jupiter

Will it ever be visible in the northern hemisphere’s night skies? I live in California and I’m afraid I’ll miss it… I’ve been checking apps but during the night it’s already gone

Does that background music come from ksp👀

The weather has sucked for two weeks in Maryland

Its not visible to naked eye nor visible with binoculars 😢😢😢

Can I see it in Belgium?

I have observed it for the 10th time since March 1st visually with the 13x50 Monocular, it's bright and easy to see, last night it was even brighter and I also saw its tail despite the bright moon, its coma was big, especially its center that looks like a blurry star when viewed, for those who intend to look at it visually, I'd recommend using averted vision.

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Can it be captured by android phone? I really want to see

I should get some nice views out here in Country Queensland, bugger all light pollution.

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What app/program is he using to track the comet?

What app?

Should I be worried about it?

This Morning at 3 am ?

its too bad the comet will be so high up in the sky that it wont even come in the frame if trying to photograph the eclipse with it. you might need like a 20mm lens to get that wide of a field and at that point the comet will be just a pin point of light!

Can I see it with a 15x70 binoculars form India?

Are we going to see comets to😩day❔

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I thought it was June 2 it would be closest to the sun? 🤔 No, sorry. That's closest to Earth, 1.5Au iirc

Reminiscence of Heavens Gate mass suicide 1997.

"Devils commet" their hinting yall once again and ypu all still think its a fictional commet. Yall dont even relaise its signs from ya

I really dislike the name “the devil comet” I thought we were last fear mongering everything about space

This comet sucks. I just went out on the western horizon. I couldn't see anything even with a telescope panning around. You kids are too young to remember Halleys Comet or Halle-Bopp. Now those were comets. You could see them in the Northern Hemisphere with the naked eye. You didn't have a pathetic sliver of time to see them in on the low horizon. You didn't have to hope trees weren't blocking your view.

QUIVIYEJTILUX..okai

😂..no high pressure system over Europe since September 2023, no chance to see this comet.