Sunday, October 26, 2025

A6 Lemmon - A Millennial Deja Vu


Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon, through a DSLR lens on Oct 27th, New Jersey



Date: January 3, 2025
Location: Santa Catalina Mountains, Coronado National Forest near Tucson, Arizona.
Altitude: 9,000 feet above sea level

Here sits the white dome of an observatory that runs the Mount Lemmon Survey (MLS). The survey is part of the Catalina Sky Survey - one of the most prolific surveys for detecting near earth objects. On January 3, the survey first detected a tiny moving dot on its computer screens, shifting it's position against a fixed background of stars.