Comet C/2013 US10 (Catalina) was discovered on Oct. 31, 2013 by the Catalina Sky Survey. It reached perihelion on Nov. 15, 2015 and is currently visible…Read More » in telescope views from Earth. See photos of the comet from stargazers here. THIS IMAGE: Astrophotographer Chris Schur caught Comet C/2013 US10 (Catalina) on Nov 22, 2015, from his location in Payson, Arizona. He writes in an email message to Space.com: “Here is one of the first shots of this comet post-perihelion taken in this country of the new Comet Catalina emerging from the bright glare of the morning twilight for the first time. I had set up the night before, and at 5:45 am this morning, dialed the position of the comet in with the (gulp) manual setting circles and put in an eyepiece and – it was BARELY visible. Fortunately the camera did a much better job and recorded not only the comet as a nice green head, but both a gas and dust tails as well. Within 5 minutes, it was all over, and by 5:50 it was too light out to even image it.” Less «
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