Lemmon: guide to observing the comet on 21 October

This is it, from 20 October to early November we can see in our skiesthe comet C/2025 A6 - Lemmon, which has been talked about since January. Of course we need to find the darkest possible location, but there is no need to go to the top of a mountain, just get away from the light. In the first week the moon will not be there, which makes it easier to see the faint snowflake that is the nucleus of the comet itself.

Mind you, beautiful pictures of this comet are starting to be taken, but with the naked eye you can see it less, for the reason that the camera accumulates light, while the eye discharges it every tenth of a second. It is still an exciting spectacle of nature.

To find it, you can use a free app, such as Stellarium or Starwalk2, which are easy to use, or, more simply, look westwards after sunset, in the direction of Ursa Major, better to use binoculars, or go to a circle of sky enthusiasts who use small telescopes, which are excellent for this type of observation,

The comet was seen and catalogued last January, by the Mount Lemmon Observatory in Californi, which specialises in the discovery and surveillance of small celestial objects, asteroids and comets. It has lived up to its promises, growing in brightness evenly and at its peak, at the end of October, it will become magnitude 4, i.e. above the visibility limit.

It is a comet that has a very long period, so you either see it this time or nothing at all,