Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. All celestial objects look better when viewed in a dark sky. For comet A3 — also called C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS ...

11-12 — Comet of origin: 109P/Swift-Tuttle — Zenithal Hourly Rate (ZHR): 100 (The number of meteors a single observer would see in an hour of peak activity with a clear, dark sky and the ...

The small, dark blot of B29 is less than 0.5° north ... you're in luck - there's something even bigger going on in the early-morning sky, as the Quadrantid meteor shower peaks this morning ...