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                                2024 April 4
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                         Comet Pons-Brooks at Night
                Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]Dan Bartlett`

   Explanation: [5]In dark evening skies over June Lake, northern
   hemisphere, planet Earth, [6]Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks stood just above the
   western horizon on March 30. Its twisted turbulent ion tail and diffuse
   greenish coma are captured in this two degree wide telescopic field of
   view along with bright yellowish star Hamal also known as [7]Alpha
   Arietis. Now Pons-Brooks has moved out of the northern night though,
   approaching perihelion on April 21. [8]On April 8 you might still spot
   the comet in daytime skies. But to do it, you will have to stand in the
   path of totality and look away from the spectacle of an [9]alluring
   solar corona and totally eclipsed Sun.

           NASA Coverage: [10]Total Solar Eclipse of 2024 April 8
                     Tomorrow's picture: pixels in space
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References

   1. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
   2. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2404/12P_Pons_Brooks_2024_03_30_JuneLake_DEBartlett.jpg
   3. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply
   4. https://www.astrobin.com/users/h2ologg/
   5. https://www.astrobin.com/el4qff/B/
   6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12P/Pons–Brooks#Observational_history
   7. https://earthsky.org/brightest-stars/hamal-ancient-equinox-star/
   8. https://earthsky.org/tonight/12-p-comet-pons-brooks-outburst-millennium-falcon-bright-2024-eclipse/
   9. https://earthsky.org/tonight/12-p-comet-pons-brooks-outburst-millennium-falcon-bright-2024-eclipse/
  10. https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/future-eclipses/eclipse-2024/
  11. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240403.html
  12. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
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  19. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html
  20. http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=240404
  21. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240405.html
  22. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html
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  24. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html
  25. http://www.astro.umd.edu/
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