@@SongMom8 never forget the wonderful Hale Bopp! I was 11, my dad took me into the garden to gaze at the sight which I'll never forget. What a treat!! A beacon of hope in the sky.
As I was watching this I thought the same thing. I was 24 and aside from a brief 30 second glimpse of Halley's Comet in an event sponsored by my elementary school, Hale-Bopp was the first comet I ever truly saw. I was mesmerized and my husband and I took every chance to sky watch, driving out west of Flagstaff, AZ into the lovely dark skies by the Naval Observatory. I got seriously spoiled I'm my expectations about comet watching. Maybe this one will blaze brightly for us!
My mother would have loved this. She brought us to beaches, tenting with me and my two siblings ever since we were quite young, just to see unusual celestial happenings. Here is for you mum! I love that you instilled such a love of the sky and Earth in me and my siblings. Now my children have a similar love of the Earth and sky!
So cool to have a parent like that. My parents instilled that in me at a very young age and we passed it on to our kids. Nothing in this world like the Majesty of the night sky. Puts things down here in perspective.
*hug* What you said about your Mom reminded me of the lyrics of the song "Saturn" by Sleeping at Last. The song never fails to make me teary eyed: "You taught me the courage of stars before you left/How light carries on endlessly, even after death/With shortness of breath, you explained the infinite/How rare and beautiful it is to even exist." I hope you will get to share this spectacular celestial event with your children too :-*
Was driving truck on a midnight run in northern ontario an saw hale-bop the moon was cresent an bright and the backdrop was the northern lights shimmering , i stopped the truck on top of a mountain an sat an watched , was the most beautiful thing i have ever seen , didn't have cell phone or even remember if they took pictures back then and didn't have a camara , well long haul truck drivers mostly had a way to make coffee something close to food an dirty cloths back then an maybe fifty bucks the company gave you for emergencys to use to call them tell them you were dead an the load would be alittle late was about it , sure wish i had a camara though because would like to see it again
I saw Comet Kohoutek when it first entered the Western sky, stretching as long as I could see in both directions, on my paper route around 4am. It was cloud like, and its head was shaped like an arrow. There are no known pictures of this I could find. A few minutes later, I saw it in the Southern sky, rapidly getting farther away, looking like a fireball. When I got back to the newspaper agency after finishing my route, and not knowing what I had witnessed, a new morning edition of the Chicago papers came out announcing the comets arrival. It was spectacular, yet everything I’ve read online said it was a disappointment. I guess not many people shared my viewing experience.
Me too: I was finishing up my morning delivery route when I looked to the eastern horizon, and there it was, boom, pointing to the rising sun. I looked away for a second, but it was gone when I looked back because the sun up. Seen several since then, all are cool.
@@BigBrainBrian I was in Chicago. It was hugging the Western Horizon here and it was very high . Then I saw it leaving, after delivering a newspaper on someone’s back porch in the darker Southern sky, so it was twilight by me. And since I was close to the North branch of the Chicago River, there were only houses in between , nothing to obstruct my view. You must of been west of Chicago, when you saw it in the Eastern sky. Do you mind me asking where? I’m glad to finally hear from someone whom also witnessed this once in 75,000 years event after 50 years!
SECOND in a lifetime event. First in a lifetime event, Comet Hale-Bopp in 1996-97. "Comet Hale-Bopp was an unusually bright comet that flew by Earth, reaching its closest approach to the planet in 1997. It was most spectacular in the Northern Hemisphere and visible to the naked eye for about 18 months. Hale-Bopp was probably one of the most viewed comets in history."
It depends on when you were born. If born after hale bopp then yes, once in a lifetime. Once in a lifetime is not an accurate statement. It's just for sensationalism.
Hale-Bopp in 1997 was spectacular indeed. We were visiting Los Angeles then, and the Griffith Observatory hosted a huge amateur stargazing event right at sundown on one of days... lots and lots of people there, some with cheesy little telescopes and some with huge Dobsonians. With all the light pollution in Los Angeles you would think that it would be next to impossible to see the comet, yet before the sun had even gone all the way down it was bright with its twin tails, one white and one blue. Driving home to Texas a few days later, we pulled about 20 miles off Interstate 10 at the California/Nevada border near Needles and found some pure dark sky and it was almost beyond belief - I had never seen a sight in the heavens like that. Magnificent!
I’m not at all familiar with comets. But this video was easy to understand and now I’m excited about the comet, the meteor shower and the eclipses! Wow!
I saw Kohoutek when it first entered the Western sky, stretching as long as I could see in both directions, on my paper route around 4am. It was cloud like, and its head was shaped like an arrow. There are no known pictures of this I could find. A few minutes later, I saw it in the Southern sky, rapidly getting farther away, looking like a fireball. When I got back to the newspaper agency after finishing my route, a new morning edition of the Chicago papers came out announcing the comets arrival. It was spectacular, yet everything I’ve read online said it was a disappointment. I guess not many people shared my experience.
Actually it was not a comet. It hit The Earth & nothing happened because it was a vision of the future 55 years in 5 min but most people were asleep but still get deja vu. Watergate took the news media over. The last thing you hear in my the news is Nixon saying it seems to be losing some of its brightness.
Sounds like astronomers have given up on the earlier prediction that it could be a daytime visible comet. Neowise was amazing and if it even gives us a show like that I will be happy.
Doubt I will be able to see this comet. I live in Columbus, Ohio and am lucky now to see any stars. Unlike when I was a child, I could actually see the Milky Way, which is no longer seen here.
The best comet I've ever seen was comet West in the 1970s. I had a clear view of the Eastern horizon before sunrise, clear skies, and relatively dark skies.
I wish astronomy sites would stop saying “streaking through the sky”. Especially when it comes to comets. They are pretty to look at, but they will not move perceptibly in your field of view. The animation is misleading.
Well here in the West of Scotland,it will either be spectacular or a non event due to the amount of cloud we have. If the temperature drops significantly we just might see it, bit it will likely rain!
It’ll either be spectacular or the end of civilisation as we know it, either way it will be cloudy and I will see nothing, just like my experience with every once in a lifetime comet for the past 40 years.
We were stuck on Orcas Island WA fue to ferry being full with Hale Bopp in sky and a full lunar eclipse while my kids played hide and seek in the park...
I live in upstate NY, I am not certain I could witness such an event. I hope many of us may do so. This video was very good information-wise, thank you NASA Space News.
Wonderful and informative video. Thank you! Comet West in 1976 was my first comet and what a spectacular one it was. Hyakutake in 1996, Hale-Bopp in 1997 and Neowise are three other spectacular comets I’ve been fortunate to observe. I’ve seen perhaps four other comets in my life time, and am hoping to see this latest one.
Haley's comet in 1976 was unforgettable and it was the 1st comet of my life, Hale-Bopp was pretty nice to. I hope to see a stunning treat as you put it.
Does anyone know, is this actually an official NASA channel, or does it just use the NASA name? The voice sounds like the latest generation of AI narration, and the script reads like something ChatGPT might produce. I don’t know if I should trust the information or not. I tried looking on NASA’s website but couldn’t find anything about this comet.
I think you're right not to trust it. There are so many of these channels nowadays with a lot of AI generated content. Probably the comet will be there, but I doubt it's anything spectacular.
Wow, thanks for showing us a mock video of what it will look like. Now we can skip trying to find it in the sky since we live in the city and have too much light to see much without a telescope.❤
Pretty sure the comet is visible to the entire northern hemisphere. The only thing you need to worry about being visible to your specific location is gonna be within a few miles of you. If a comet gets that close, you're probably f'd. lol
Best viewing of Comet Tsuchinshan C/2023 A3 will likely be from Oct.7th to Oct 12 ("forward scatterijg" is as if the comet had its "headlights on", making it brighter in the night sky. After Oct. 12th it'll decrease in brightness and return after ~ 27,000 more years!
80.74 kilometers per s means 80.74 kilometers per second. The comet will not race across the sky! The graphics of it zooming across the sky are misleading. Comets don't do that.
@@frankchoumas6895 That was 1986…I saw it too, but it was a disappointing smudge…however, as others have said, Hale-Bopp was the main event in the last 40 years or so
@@paulknightleyHyakutake, a year before Hale Bopp was way more spectacular when it zoomed by Earth on March 25, 1996, only 0.1 AU away. Hardly anyone saw it though. At least a 1 in 200 year comet by size, filling most of the sky in naked eye view that night.
Reference 1x au = which is about 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers. Astronomical units are usually used to measure distances within our Solar System. The distance from Earth to the Sun is 93 million miles (149 million kilometers) 1 au when discovered the comet was 7.2 au from the sun just beyound Jupiters orbit closest approach will be Oct 12th 2024 & 0,572 au from earth 70mil klms
Oct 7th? wow, I took a photo of the Moon and three stars just below it last week making a cross and the Big Dipper to the left. I think there is allot of cool stuff in the sky this late summer early fall
Closest approach will be 43million miles, so even though it might be decently bright, it will be small. Mounted 10x50 binoculars or short focus telescope should give a nice view If the comet holds together.
@@nospoon4799 No need, seeing as how the "Palestinians" started the War; and unlike "Palestine" they are abiding by the Geneva Convention. BTW, "Palestine" doesn't even exist, nor is it a Legitimate Country; and that IS a FACT!
" And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations (tribes/ethnic groups) with perplexity; and the seas and waves roaring;" Luke 21: 25.
"Tribes, ethic groups." I've only ever heard that description of nations as described in the Bible one other place,, from Jack Hibbs, who I listen to every night. You?
Solar flares and aurora borealii ? Rain and clouds here. Super blue moon ? Not here. Shiny visitors from the Oort cloud ? I predict fog and precipitation. 😐
Isn't it amazing (not making fun, here) how we have a rare event every week or month? A new blue moon, a blood moon, a blood blue moon, a comet, Perseids meteor shower, and the list goes on. We have rare moons, and other events all the time, now. If they happen all the time, they aren't rare, anymore.
From the illustrations used, these people (this robot?) does not seem to know much about comets... they don't streak by like a meteor but more like the moon, crossing the sky a little every night. Having said that, be sure you get outside those nights while it is visible, the last few recent comets were very small and far away from Earth and difficult to see without binoculars or a telescope. Those who remember Hale Bopp and Hayakutaki 2 years before that know how special it is to be able to see one of these with the naked eye... it will take several days to "streak" across the sky so you will have ample opportunity to get to a place with a good open view of the sky... if the weather forecast is for overcast skies during the time of visibility, might be a good excuse for a trip to the desert or somewhere like that where rainfall is less frequent. But GO SEE IT! It's good for you...
4:04 - the time of day and dates, location in the sky … unclear where to look for the approach (late sept. Early Oct. mornings) after Oct 9th, eastern southwestern, depending on time of observation - evening skies. Really confused presentation 🙄
