Devil Comet April 2024 How To View. While it was too dim to see with the eye alone, some astrophotographers caught it in their images. The horned “devil comet,” notable for a recent series of explosive outbursts, is visible in the night sky now and will appear during april’s total solar eclipse.

On this visit, it will make its closest pass to the sun on april 21, 2024, before making its closest approach to earth on june 2, when it will be about 232 million km (144 million miles) away. Sky chart showing the crescent moon above jupiter and comet 12p in the western sky following sunset on april 10.