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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
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                                   2024 August 1   
      
                         Comet Olbers over Kunetice Castle   
      Image Credit & Copyright: Petr Hor+ílek / Institute of Physics in Opava   
      
      Explanation: A visitor to the inner solar system every 70 years or so   
      Comet 13P/Olbers reached its most recent perihelion, or closest   
      approach to the Sun, on June 30 2024. Now on a return voyage to the   
      distant Oort cloud the Halley-type comet is recorded here sweeping   
      through northern summer night skies over historic Kunetice Castle,   
      Czech Republic. Along with a broad dust tail, and brighter coma, this   
      comet's long ion tail buffeted by storms and winds from the Sun, is   
      revealed in the composite of tracked exposures for comet and sky, and   
      fixed exposures for foreground landscape recorded on July 28. The comet   
      is about 16 light-minutes beyond the castle and seen against faint   
      background stars below the northern constellation Ursa Major. The   
      hilltop castle dates to the 15th century, while Heinrich Olbers   
      discovered the comet in 1815. Captured here low in northwestern skies   
      just after sunset Comet Olbers, for now, offers skywatchers on planet   
      Earth rewarding telescopic and binocular views. Comet 13P/Olbers next   
      perihelion passage will be in 2094.   
      
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