Comet 24P Schaumasse: View from New Mexico

Comet 24P Schaumasse: View from New Mexico

Astrophotographer Rolando Ligustri: "Comet 24P between the galaxy M100 and the galaxy NGC 4312."

Comet Schaumasse is a Jupiter-family comet with an 8.2-year orbit around the Sun. On October 25, 2025, it passed about a degree from Jupiter. It next comes to perihelion (closest to the Sun) on January 8, 2026, with a solar elongation of 94 degrees and is expected to brighten to about magnitude 9. It is the first of three comets discovered by French astronomer, Alexandre Schaumasse. He found this comet in the year 1911.

New Mexico is a state in the Southwestern region of the United States. It is one of the Mountain States of the southern Rocky Mountains, sharing the Four Corners region with Utah, Colorado, and Arizona. It also borders the state of Texas to the east and southeast, Oklahoma to the northeast, and shares an international border with the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Sonora to the south.

Image Credit: Rolando Ligustri/New Mexico, Telescope Network

Image Details: Newtonian telescope 300/1140 CCD ASI2600MM in bin2 RGB=3x60s L=15x60s
Rolando's Website: https://www.facebook.com/astrottica
Image Date: Dec. 26, 2025

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