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Comet Hyakutake in 1996 by Franz Haar.

Franz Haar, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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"Comet C/2013 US10 Catalina in Virgo constellation just before dawn of December 9, 2015."

Alexander Vasenin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Comet 2021 A1 (Leonard) on January 2, 2022 by Christian Gloor, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Hyakutake Passing Ursa Major by Dennis Harper Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) via Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/8zdDyE

Now imagine we are in ancient times and a huge CME hits the Comet, ripping off fragments that fall to Earth...

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Hyakutake passing Ursa Major or Big Dipper 2

Those are tree tops shading the bottom and right side. Since stars are point light sources they readily peek through the branches. There are no leaves on them in March.
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Comet Morehouse on September 30, 1908.

Edward Emerson Barnard, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) near Messier 45, the Pleiades; January 2015.

theilr, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/qR2QRk

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Comet Lovejoy (C/2014 Q2) and the Pleiades (M45)

28x30sec at ISO 12800 180mm f/4 Nikon D750 Clear sky, no moon, new camera, and news of a comet in Taurus -- who cares if it's a little cold out there....
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Comet C/2016 R2 PanSTARRS on January 16, 2018.

Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona, CC BY-SA 3.0 US, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Comet C2020 F8 (SWAN) on May 1 from Indonesia.

Christian Gloor, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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The Great Comet of 1769 over Amsterdam.

Aart Schouman, ca. 1769, "AS fecit" on image, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Comet Ikeya, 1963 a, on March 14, 1963.

R. Burnham, Jr., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Color edits.

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Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF).

Brandon Ghany / Horizon Productions SFL, CC0, via Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/2ofjJqt

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Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) The result of 30+ hours of "pushing the outside of the envelope" in PixInsight image processing. See the 3.5 hour time-lapse animation here: flic.kr/p/2ofokk7 C/2022 E3 (ZTF) is a long-period comet from the Oort cloud.
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Fragmentation of Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 fragment B on April 18, 19 and 20, 2006.

NASA, ESA, H. Weaver (APL/JHU), M. Mutchler and Z. Levay (STScI). Animation from three images by User:Vesta, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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"Comet Encke" by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (or Witkacy) (1918).

Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Comet Hale-Bopp Star and Constellation Map; 1997.

Tomruen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Comet Hale-Bopp, negative. (1997)

Hans Bernhard (Schnobby), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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"New Einsiedlerhof and Old Square at the Schifflände with the Comet seen on March 9, 1742, in the morning at 3 AM."

Anonym/e Künstler/in Herrliberger, David, Hans Conrad Nözli, Friedrich Steinfels (früherer Eigentümer), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Color and cropping edits.

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"The view from a fragment of the Shoemaker / Levy 9 comet which fell into Jupiter piece by piece over several days in Late July 1994, around the 25th anniversary of Apollo 11. Acrylic on board for NASA Ames."

Don Davis, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Comet C/1995 O1 Hale-Bopp on March 14, 1997.

ESO/E. Slawik, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Comet 2020 F3 (NEOWISE) on Jul 14 2020 by SimgDe, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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"The Great Comet of 1882, on Oct. 9 at 4h AM (Flammarion.)" from "The Story of the Comets," by George Frederick Chambers (1909).

George Frederick Chambers, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

https://archive.org/details/storyofcometssim00chamuoft

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The story of the comets, simply told for general readers : Chambers, George Frederick, 1841-1915 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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Lefthand side folio 058v and righthand side folio 059r from the "Visboeck" by Adriaen Coenen.

Written and published between 1577 and 1579. The page has the date 1577 above the comet.

Adriaen Coenen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Color and cropping edits.

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"Comet C2021 A1 (Leonard) and Messier 3" by Brandon Ghany on December 3, 2021.

Brandon Ghany / Horizon Productions SFL, CC0, via Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/2mQVv5w

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Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard) Messier 3 / M3 / NGC 5272 Comet Leonard appeared to pass between the Whale Galaxy (NGC4631) and the Crowbar Galaxy (NGC4656) in late November.
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Morehouse's Comet (1908, 3.) photographed on November 15, 12h 6m GMT.

George Frederick Chambers, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Color edits.

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"Comet Tago-Sato-Kosaka, 1969 g. A 3-min exposure on Kodak Ila-O with the Curtis-Schmidt telescope, University of Michigan, located at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory. Plate taken 1969 December 28.06 UT."

V. M. Blanco and Arturo Gomez, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Color edits.

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"Coggia's Comet, 1874. Seen from the Pont-Neuf, Paris."

From "The World of Comets" by Amédée Guillemin (1877).

https://archive.org/details/worldofcomets00guiluoft

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The world of comets : Guillemin, Amédée, 1826-1893 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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"The Great Comet of 1811" by Unknown (1900).

https://www.meisterdrucke.uk/fine-art-prints/Unbekannt/744358/The-Great-Comet-of-1811,-1900.html

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The Great Comet of 1811, 1900 by Unbekannt: Fine art print

Buy The Great Comet of 1811, 1900 by Unbekannt as fine art print. ✓ High-quality museum grade. ✓ Perfect reproduction
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"Head of Halley's Comet, May 8, 1910; Reduced from Photograph taken at the Mt. Wilson Solar Observatory," from "A Beginner's Star-Book" by Edgar Murphy (1912). Color and cropping edits.

https://archive.org/details/beginnersstarboo00murp

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A beginner's star-book; an easy guide to the stars and to the astronomical uses of the opera-glass, the field-glass and the telescope : Murphy, Edgar Gardner, 1869-1913 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

A list of books: p. 144-146
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"The Comet" by Wassily Kandinsky (1900).

Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau München, Gabriele Münter Stiftung 1957 CC BY-SA 4.0 via https://www.meisterdrucke.uk/fine-art-prints/Wassily-Kandinsky/1343523/.html

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The Comet (Nocturnal Rider?) by Wassily Kandinsky

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"Donati's Comet - Formation and Development of Cometary Appendages, from Drawings by P. G. Bond.

1. September 24, 1858.

2. September 26, 1858.

3. October 3, 1858.

4. October 5, 1858.

From "The World of Comets" by Amédée Guillemin (1877).

https://archive.org/details/worldofcomets00guiluoft

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The world of comets : Guillemin, Amédée, 1826-1893 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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Tabel 11 - Comets and Aerolites, by Ludwig Preyssinger (1851).

CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries.

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Taf. XI. Kometen und Aerolithen. (Comets and meteorites.) : Preyssinger, Ludwig : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com.This image 7990.018 is a part of image group 7990.000.Date estimated. Six of the 12 plates are...
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"Watching the Comet on the Boulevards, 1857" by François Courboin (1898).

François Courboin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Montezuma the 2nd watching a comet, 1579; by Diego Durán (1867).

Public Domain via Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/hThNWJ

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British Library digitised image from page 545 of "Historia de las Indias de Nueva-España y islas de Tierra Firme ... La publica con un atlas, notas, y ilustraciones J. F. Ramirez, etc"

Image taken from: Title: "Historia de las Indias de Nueva-España y islas de Tierra Firme ... La publica con un atlas, notas, y ilustraciones J. F.
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"The Ides of March" by Edward Poynter (before 1919).

Calpurnia is pointing to the comet in the sky.

Edward Poynter, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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"Comet 6 - 1858 (Donati) at the moment of its maximum splendor. October 5." One of many wonderful illustrations in: "Atlante Astronomico," by Giovanni Celoria.

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Atlante Astronomico : Celoria, Giovanni : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Celoria, Giovanni (1842-1920). Atlante astronomico. 39 tavole miniate con testo e illustrazioni. Milano : Ulrico Hoepli, 1890
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"The Great Comet of 1861 as seen by Warren de la Rue (DCL, FRS) with his Newtonian Equatoreal of 13 inches Aperature."

From "The World of Comets" by Amédée Guillemin (1877).

https://archive.org/details/worldofcomets00guiluoft

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The world of comets : Guillemin, Amédée, 1826-1893 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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William Turner of Oxford, 1789–1862, British, Donati's Comet, between 1858 and 1859, Watercolor and gouache over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, B1975.4.1767.

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:12959

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Donati's Comet - YCBA Collections Search

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"The Great Comet of 1843" from "L'Universo Stellato" by Max Wilhelm Meyer (1900). This is an Italian version of a German edition published in 1898 under the title "Das Weltgebäude."

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L'Universo Stellato : Meyer, Max Wilhelm : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Meyer, Max Wilhelm (1853-1910). L'universo stellato : trattato di astronomia popolare / Guglielmo Meyer ; traduzione italiana consentita dall'autore,...
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Donati's Comet as seen at Paris on the 5th of October 1858. From "The World of Comets," by Amédée Guillemin (1877).

https://archive.org/details/worldofcomets00guiluoft

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The world of comets : Guillemin, Amédée, 1826-1893 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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Chéseaux's Comet as seen on March 8, 1744 from "The World of Comets," by Amédée Guillemin (1877).

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The world of comets : Guillemin, Amédée, 1826-1893 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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Comet seen from Geesterpoort in Alkmaar, Netherlands. January 1681. Drawing by Lambert Doomer.

Public Domain via the Rijks Museum item RP-T-00-341. Gift of the Rijksmuseum Foundation.

http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.36825

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Staartster boven Alkmaar, 1681, Lambert Doomer, 1681 - Rijksmuseum

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