C/2024 G3 in SOHO LASCO C3
Nick James 14 Jan 2025 21:17 UTC
C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is now past perihelion and it is still looking very
healthy. I've just posted an animation of the comet moving through the
SOHO LASCO C3 field of view which was constructed from the raw FITS file
and so it maintains all of the available dynamic range. The background
solar corona has been removed by subtracting a min stacked reference
image using data from January 1st. The animation is here:
https://britastro.org/observations/observation.php?id=20250114_211401_cc96625da78ff2ec
The comet currently has a very spectacular tail.
Nick.