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

I'll show you where to look to see one of the best comets of 2024. On April 21st Comet Pons Brooks will make its closest approach to the Sun and will be at its brightest in our night sky.

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[crooked-halo]

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!

[Jahtso]

Hope everyone enjoys the eclipse and the comet!!

[scruffypage]

Nice to see you covered the Southern Hemisphere! Subbed

[senkai]

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.

[jaswan]

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.

[jasonuren]

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

[samsungh]

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!

[hyacinth]

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

[RadicalHumanitarian]

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

[lisaclark]

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

[keeplookingup]

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

[GarnachoEmpire]

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

[backyardpb]

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

[BWB_Cubing]

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

[stephanwright]

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

[thescarlettbandit]

Thank you. Just in time for it’s Jupiter pass... weather permitting of course 😄👍
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[ujwolshrestha]

Reminiscence of Heavens Gate mass suicide 1997.

[Jason_g_kennedy]

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

[fnaffan-qwpk]

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

[Tze]

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?