Anyone for a Game of Badminton?…This comet looks like a Birdy!
Comet 2025 A6 Lemmon on 10-17-2025 06:01 am EST.
I love seeing the Comet’s Green Coma, and Brown Dust tail, as well as the very long blue Ion Tail.
The little Seestar scope did a decent job, considering it was only a few degrees above the horizon, at the Twin Towers Metro Park, Fairborn/Enon, Ohio. The comet is shining at visual estimates ranging from 4.5 to 5.2 magnitude, depending on how high off the horizon it is, as atmospheric extinction and transparency, High moisture content in the air or haze near the horizons, light pollution, are all affecting its human eye visibility for some especially near city light pollution.
Use binoculars to spot it!
The Comet is moving into the evening sky as well over the next week, crossing Boötes constellation and should be visible just after sunset,…but the comet sinks low to the west quickly starting at dusk. You maybe have 30 minutes to see it, before it sinks below the northwestern Horizon. Remember you need a good low horizon and use Binoculars to find it first. Comet Lemmon is closest to Earth on the 21st of October. It is shining near 4th magnitude now, even cell phone cameras can record it.
BTW, tonight is the peak of the Orionid’s meteor shower as well,….They will be emanating from the Constellation of Orion, so be on the lookout for the Orionid Meteors between midnight and dawn.
Capture details:
Seestar 50s Telescope, with built in 462 Cmos Color Camera,
Equatorial Mode, 10 second subs exposures stacked,
3 x 3 minutes stacked
A 9-minute exposure stack total.
Seestar Capture and Stack Software, Pix-Insight, and Adobe Raw CC 2025.
Date; & Time of Capture 10-17-2025 10:01 U.T. from Fairborn-Enon, Ohio at Twin Towers Metro Park.
Best Regards,
John Chumack
