Comets Bradfield and LINEAR Rising
			
		
		
			Credit & Copyright:  
Wally Pacholka (Astropics)
		
		
			Comet Bradfield 
is easy to see on the left, but can you find 
Comet LINEAR on the right?  
Last week, just before sunrise from the northern hemisphere, 
two bright comets were visible in the 
same part of the sky at the same time.  
The above long-exposure image was taken on the morning of April 25 from 
Joshua Tree National Park in 
California, 
USA.  
Comet C/2004 F4 (Bradfield) 
is giving an unexpectedly good show as it recedes from the 
Sun and 
Earth and fades from view.  
Its tail is estimated by some to be about 10 
degrees long.  
Having just rounded the Sun itself, 
Comet C/2002 T7 (LINEAR) is now moving toward the Earth.   
Although intrinsically fading, T7 will 
appear to brighten until about mid-May and so 
continue to be visible to the unaided eye before 
sunrise to southern hemisphere observers into June.  
Q4, the third coincidental naked eye comet, 
will become visible in mid-May to northern hemisphere observers.