A newly discovered comet will soon be gracing our evening sky.

On Sept. 10, Vladimir Bezugly of Dnipro, Ukraine was examining online images of a low-resolution public website showing images obtained during Sept. 5-9 with the Solar Wind Anisotropies (SWAN) camera on the Solar and Heliospheric Observer (SOHO) spacecraft. That's when he discovered a moving object, resembling a bright blob, close the sun. The blob turned out to be a comet. A bright comet.

In fact, as Bezugly later noted: "In my memory, this is one of the brightest comet discoveries ever made on SWAN imagery," adding, "the 20th official SWAN comet so far." Since Bezugly's first sighting, many other amateurs — primarily in the Southern Hemisphere — have viewed it. The comet has since received a formal IAU designation on Sept.

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