When, Where And How To See The Giant ‘K2’ Comet Now At Its Biggest, Brightest And Best After A Three Million Year Journey

 

Now July’s full Moon has come and gone it’s time to start looking for one of the biggest comets ever discovered.

The largest comet ever found when it was detected by astronomers using the Pan-STARRS telescope back in 2017 (though since surpassed by a “mega comet”), C/2017 K2 Panstarrs will reach its minimum distance from our planet—about 1.8 times the Earth-Sun distance—on July 14, 2022.

The Virtual Telescope Project has promised to show the event live online, though you can also get eyes-on with it yourself if you have any kind of telescope.

It will get closest to the Sun on December 19, 2022.

Right now and through August is the best time to look for it, with any small telescope able to pick it out.

Here’s a star-chart to help you find it on July 14, 2022:

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