{"id":6857,"date":"2020-03-13T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T02:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/?p=6857"},"modified":"2020-04-04T14:01:22","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T06:01:22","slug":"potential-bright-naked-eye-comet-c-2019-y4-atlas-in-mid-may-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/2020\/03\/potential-bright-naked-eye-comet-c-2019-y4-atlas-in-mid-may-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Potential Bright Naked Eye Comet C\/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) in Mid-May 2020?!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Bandar Seri Begawan<\/strong> &#8211; Comet C\/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) is peaking brightness as it close approaching to Earth on Sat May 23, 2020, about 0.25 AU from the Sun. It is readily visible from the Northern hemisphere<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently in the constellation of Ursa Major, the comet is easily spotted (~magnitude 9.5) and appeared as a fuzzy ball in a small telescope despite of bright moonlit sky last night (Mac 12, 2020). No clear sign of a comet tail at the moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Comet_Atlas_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6859\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Comet_Atlas_.jpg 960w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Comet_Atlas_-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Comet_Atlas_-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption>Tiny fuzzy ball in the sky (indicated by arrow) is visible in a small telescope. Image by Hazarry of PABD from Brunei Darussalam on March 12, 2020 at 23:00 (UTC+8)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Discovery Date<\/td><td>December 28, 2019<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Magnitude<\/td><td>19.6 mag<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Discoverer<\/td><td>Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) search program<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We may have a semi bright comet. C\/2019 Y4 ATLAS is brighter than expected, could reach mag +6 for us during late April\/May and brighter again when close to the sun, worth monitoring! Image by Michael Jager <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/comet?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#comet<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/cometatlas?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#cometatlas<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bbYfTNxlqm\">pic.twitter.com\/bbYfTNxlqm<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Martin McKenna (Nightskyhunter) (@martinastro2005) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/martinastro2005\/status\/1232068356523601923?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 24, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Light curve of the comet: <a aria-label=\"http:\/\/www.aerith.net\/comet\/catalog\/2019Y4\/2019Y4.html (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aerith.net\/comet\/catalog\/2019Y4\/2019Y4.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/www.aerith.net\/comet\/catalog\/2019Y4\/2019Y4.html<\/a> and <a aria-label=\"http:\/\/astro.vanbuitenen.nl\/comet\/2019Y4 (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/astro.vanbuitenen.nl\/comet\/2019Y4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/astro.vanbuitenen.nl\/comet\/2019Y4<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on it&#8217;s light curves, if we are lucky it may turn out to be a bright naked eye comet in mid-May this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a class=\"twitter-timeline\" data-width=\"640\" data-height=\"960\" data-dnt=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/c2019y4?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">Tweets by c2019y4<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>More info and updates of the comet: <a aria-label=\"https:\/\/theskylive.com\/c2019y4-info  (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/theskylive.com\/c2019y4-info\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/theskylive.com\/c2019y4-info <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bandar Seri Begawan &#8211; Comet C\/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) is peaking brightness as it close approaching&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,61],"tags":[320,321,25],"class_list":["post-6857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-gallery","tag-atlas","tag-c-2019-y4","tag-comet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}