#machholz — Public Fediverse posts

More groundbased observations of comet 96P/ #Machholz: https://spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=192349 = on the morning of 5 February from Austria at 15° elongation, https://spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=192210 = on 31 January from France at 4° elongation when it was muuuch brighter but in the day sky right next to the Sun - but could be imaged nonetheless thanks to a crazy contraption.

An image of comet 96P/ #Machholz on their morning of Feb. 5 from Japan: https://twitter.com/kumagayakimura/status/1622026042348281859

Closing in ... comet #Machholz and the Sun in https://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/c3/1024/latest.html at 14:54 UTC. Also a nice animation in different image processing at https://twitter.com/SungrazerComets/status/1620032480035364864, what STEREO sees in https://twitter.com/TrygvePrestgard/status/1620029587970490368 - and a 2018 online talk by Machholz himself in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C0htczctdw (just uploaded by his widow),