Overview
- The comet is brightening now and sits near the edge of naked‑eye visibility in very dark skies, though binoculars will make it easy to spot over the next several mornings.
- Look low in the eastern sky about 90 minutes before sunrise near the Great Square of Pegasus, where it tracks from the star Markab toward Algenib with a clear horizon needed.
- The comet is expected to be at its brightest late in the month near its closest pass to Earth, but by then it will be hard or impossible to see from much of the Northern Hemisphere.
- It will pass the Sun at roughly half the Earth–Sun distance later this month, a safer path that reduces the breakup risk seen with a sungrazer that disintegrated earlier this month.
- Forecasts suggest a peak around magnitude +2 to +3 with a possible brightness boost from sunlight scattering off dust, though such predictions often change.