Comet In March 2024. The comet should brighten further as it nears the sun in the coming weeks. The comet reached perihelion, its closest approach to the sun, on september 27 and will reach perigee, its closest to our fair planet, on october 12, by then becoming an evening sky.

A bright comet will be visible during next month’s total solar eclipse. The following chart is the predicted light curve (visual magnitude as a.