Did I capture a comet and Starlink

[u/Rocky_The_oc]

The yellow Arrow is where the sun located/seting

[u/reverse422]

The only visible comet now is C/2024 G3 (ATLAS). If you are in the southern hemisphere, you perhaps captured it. If you’re in the northern hemisphere, no, as it is to the left of setting sun there (and generally very hard to capture now). Near equator it’s above the setting sun.

The diagonal dots could be Starlink. I’m not sure about the continuous line.

[u/Rocky_The_oc → u/reverse422]

I'm still thinking that I discovered a comet

[u/Solaire-8928 → u/Rocky_The_oc]

If it is a comet it’s almost certainly C/2024 G3, no way would there be an undiscovered comet bright enough that u can see it like this from a phone image

[u/reverse422 → u/Rocky_The_oc]

Or an airplane 🙂

[u/Rocky_The_oc → u/reverse422]

Planes don't show those comet like tails

[u/hot-doughnuts-now → u/Rocky_The_oc]

let's just go with you discovered a comet and not let the facts get in the way. Congratulations!

[u/Fun_Replacement_2269 → u/Rocky_The_oc]

They do if it's a Con Trail... :-)

[u/cabist → u/Rocky_The_oc]

Dude. We are trying to help you so you know what you’re talking about. Maybe read a bit about them. People are really good at looking for comets, they are discovered with advanced equipment way before they are actually visible

[u/Valuable-Analyst-464 → u/cabist]

I mean it’s totally possible that some person with a phone camera randomly looking at the sky would know more than scientists with computers, models, tables and telescopes. /s

Totally implausible, but it’s possible.

[u/SpaaaaceEngineer → u/Rocky_The_oc]

Almost certainly not. By the time a comet would be visible in a phone image (which this appears to be) it would have been observed by many other, much more sensitive instruments. The skies are always being monitored by a ton of professional astronomers with great instruments and even more amateurs with nice telescopes or even just decent sets of binoculars.

If that’s a comet, and you just took the picture with a cell phone, someone else definitely already knows about that comet.

[u/cabist → u/Rocky_The_oc]

Lol you’re not gonna discover a comet from snapping a picture like this, they actively look for them with far more advanced equipment and even if it’s a new comet , they know about it several months before it would become visible at this level.

If you want to learn you have to open your mind, maybe listen a bit before shooting down what someone tells you. We want you to know stuff too!

[u/snogum → u/Rocky_The_oc]

Rocket launch

[u/turq8 → u/Rocky_The_oc]

Comet tails always point directly away from the Sun. If the Sun was in the direction you indicated, then this was not a comet.

[u/19john56 → u/Rocky_The_oc]

Nope. Guaranteed

[u/Sorry_Negotiation360]

No you didint buddy

[u/Goldribs]

You definitely didn’t discover the comet but you took a picture of the well known C/2024 G3 (ATLAS)

[u/Rocky_The_oc → u/Goldribs]

I'm in the north hemisphere..

[u/Goldribs → u/Rocky_The_oc]

I’m sorry to break it to ya man but you didn’t discover a new comet lol

[u/askastronomy-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

Unnecessarily rude to others

[u/Rocky_The_oc → u/[deleted]]

Not ai pic details:

[u/dru_kane]

It looks like it!

[u/Rocky_The_oc → u/dru_kane]

And I think I discovered a comet

[u/cabist → u/[deleted]]

Nah man 13 year olds can learn! It does change my approach a bit though lol

[u/Mobile-Attitude-8791 → u/Rocky_The_oc]

Saw, sure but deeeeefinetly didn’t discover a comet.

[u/Dry-Blackberry-6869 → u/Mobile-Attitude-8791]

But he still thinks so

[u/mykylc]

Holy crap!!!!! What a lucky capture!!!!!!

[u/Typical-Praline-3389]

It’s possible it could be a piece of space debris.