Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon): View from Canary Islands off African Coast
Astrophotographer Marina Prol Franco: "Last Saturday, we headed up to the higher parts of the island, trying to escape the thermal inversion sitting around 1500 m. We managed to get above the low clouds, but the high ones weren’t as easy to dodge. Still, we caught a few short breaks in the sky and managed to shoot the comet. Not much detail this time, but visibility between the main islands was surprisingly good despite all those clouds."
Comet Lemmon is brightening and moving into morning northern skies. Besides Comet SWAN25B and Comet ATLAS, Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is now the third comet currently visible with binoculars and on long camera exposures. Comet Lemmon was discovered early this year and is still headed into the inner Solar System. The comet will round the Sun on November 8, 2025. It passed nearest to the Earth—about half of the Earth-Sun distance—on October 21.
The Canary Islands, also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish region, autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean. At their closest point to the African mainland, they are 100 kilometers (62 miles) west of Morocco and the Western Sahara. La Palma, also known as La isla bonita and historically San Miguel de La Palma, is the most northwesterly island of the Canary Islands, Spain.
Capture Location: Gran Canaria, Canary Islands (Spain)
Date: Oct. 25, 2025
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