Comet Lemmon (C/2025 A6) is visible in the skies now and for the next week or so. With binoculars, sweep around close to the horizon in the west at about 7 PM DST (or 6 PM after Nov. 1). Look for a fuzzy star with a faint wisp of a tail pointing upward. Only the white dust tail is visible to the eye, but time exposures reveal a long blue ion tail. Click the picture above for more photos.
If you steady your binoculars and gaze at the comet for a while, you'll notice something kind of eerie: many of the stars in the field are moving! These are satellites — lots of them part of Starlink — and the sheer number of them is quite astonishing. With a quick glance they look like stars, but then it looks like the heavens have come unglued and the stars gone crazy.
