Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon: View from Spain

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon): View from Spain

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.

Spain, officially the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Spanning the majority of the Iberian Peninsula, its territory also includes the Canary Islands, in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean, the Balearic Islands, in the Western Mediterranean Sea, and the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla, in mainland Africa. Peninsular Spain is bordered to the north by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; to the east and south by the Mediterranean Sea and Gibraltar; and to the west by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean.

Image Credit: Rolando Ligustri 
Image Details: APO 130/1000 CCD ASI2600MM in bin2 RGB = 3x60s each L = 30x60s field of view 43'x65', astroart processing and PS

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Release Date: Oct. 27, 2025 

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