In the coming weeks, skywatchers will have an opportunity to view a new comet that is currently inbound on its way toward the sun. This new visitor to the inner solar system is expected to brighten, perhaps becoming a fairly easy object to see in small telescopes or good binoculars.

And there's hope that it may even become bright enough to glimpse with the naked eye under dark non-light polluted skies (for those who have access to such viewing sites).

The new comet is catalogued as C/2025 A6 (Lemmon). It was discovered by the Mount Lemmon Survey, utilizing a 60-inch (1.52-meter) Cassegrain reflecting telescope, equipped with a 10560 x 10560-pixel camera. The telescope is located at the Mount Lemmon Observatory and is operated by the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory located in

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