Another view of C/2025 R3 PanSTARRS, this time from the CCOR-1 coronagraph aboard NOAA’s GOES-19 satellite (https://ccor.nrl.navy.mil/).
Unlike SOHO, which is 1.5 million km away, GOES-19 watches from geostationary orbit.
Another update on the fate of the Kreutz comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) as seen by the CCOR-1 coronograph (https://ccor.nrl.navy.mil/) on board the GOES-19 satellite.
The last image is from 7:15 UTC on April 6. The remnant of the comet is now becoming rather faint and is about as bright as the solar corona.
Kreutz comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) qickly approaching perihelion in the field of view of the of the CCOR-1 coronograph.
This movie is missing 3 hours early morning UTC, when there entire field of view is white in the original movie.
Short movie covering ~7 hours of Kreutz comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) in the field of view of the of the CCOR-1 coronograph.
The comet enters the FOV at 10:00 UTC and the movie ends at 16:45 UTC.
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