{"id":4024,"date":"2023-01-10T16:24:49","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T16:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/?p=4024"},"modified":"2023-01-10T16:24:49","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T16:24:49","slug":"a-comet-visitor-jan-feb-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/?p=4024","title":{"rendered":"A Comet Visitor Jan\/Feb 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Comet C\/2022 E3 (ZTF) is currently visiting the inner solar system.<br>It is estimated to have last been here 50,000 years ago, ie at the time when the Neanderthals were roaming the land.\u00a0 So, this is the first time that Homo Sapiens will have seen it.<br>Some have speculated that this comet originated in the Oort Cloud, the theoretical sphere of debris some 50,000 to 100,000 AU from the sun, 1-2 light years.<br>It is likely to be at its brightest at the end of January, beginning of Feb and is predicted to be easily seen with binoculars, and maybe also the naked eye.\u00a0<br>No doubt the observers in our membership will be able to advise how best to sight it but a screen shot from the video on <strong><em>space.com<\/em><\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/comet-c2022-e3-ztf-closest-to-sun-thursday-jan-12-2023\">LINK<\/a>) shows where it will be during January.\u00a0 There are also many other sites on the web were you can read up about C\/2022 E3 (ZTF)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Comet-C2022-e3-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Comet-C2022-e3-.jpg\" alt=\"Comet C3\/2022 E3 path Jan 2023\" class=\"wp-image-4023\" srcset=\"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Comet-C2022-e3-.jpg 960w, http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Comet-C2022-e3--300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Comet-C2022-e3--768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Comet-C2022-e3--210x118.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Comet C3\/2022 E3 path Jan 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comet C\/2022 E3 (ZTF) is currently visiting the inner solar system.It is estimated to have last been here 50,000 years ago, ie at the time when the Neanderthals were roaming the land.\u00a0 So, this is the first time that Homo Sapiens will have seen it.Some have speculated that this comet originated in the Oort Cloud, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4025,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024\/revisions\/4025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}