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Comet 12P/Pons-Brook Visible‚ Comes Around Every 71 Years
An amateur astronomer in Cumbria has been tracking Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks with a Canon DSLR camera. The periodic comet‚ named after its discoverers‚ is visible with binoculars or a telescope as it passes Earth every 71 years. The comet displays outbursts of activity‚ causing it to brighten as it approaches the Sun periodically. On a hazy‚ misty night I took […]
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