Talk:C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS)

comet of 1844
what is "the great comet of 1844"??? so great, the only source is external, 170 years old and absolutley unknown to any other page on the internet???? who wrote that? remove it please. article needs facts and is not supposed to be a collection of random nonsense. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.249.88.24 (talk) 10:02, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

Visibility?
The Taurus page says Taurus "completely disappears behind the Sun's glare from May to July", so saying the comet will be 'visible' at its nearest approach to the Sun seems problematic. Is the May 23 closest approach to Earth visibility correct? Randy Kryn (talk) 12:02, 27 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Faint objects disappear when within ~15 degrees of the Sun because of twilight. On May 23 the comet will be in Perseus (constellation) 17 degrees from the Sun. It just depends on how bright the comet gets. Spotting the comet might be like spotting the planet Mercury. -- Kheider (talk) 15:27, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Information like that should be in the article. Randy Kryn (talk) 02:17, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

Images
Looks like after tomorrow the only two images left on the page will be the lead image and the February 14th image (first in the gallery). The others (not the path-diagram, that stays) are being pulled for containing no copyright information. So a good opportunity for photographers to put their best images up. Randy Kryn (talk) 02:17, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

29 Comets
There are 29 different comets known as comet Atlas. -- Kheider (talk) 03:32, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Are any of those actually known as Comet Atlas? Or is this the first that has picked that up as the common name (per search engine entries). Randy Kryn (talk) 03:35, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
 * "Atlas" here merely refers to the survey that located these objects. The article appears to be named correctly at this time (i.e.: "C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS)") --Rusty Lugnuts (talk) 02:32, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

Disintegration, and link to Great Comet of 1844
NASA press release about the link to the Great Comet of 1844, and the previous perihelion of their parent comet in the 3rd millennium BCE: This is based on research published in the Astronomical Journal, here:  Renerpho (talk) 23:40, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
 * An article about the 1844 comet should be created as well. There is one in the German Wikipedia that has extensive information and references: What looks like an English translation of that article can be found here. Renerpho (talk) 23:44, 19 August 2021 (UTC)