Comet 3I/ATLAS now visible from Earth with a small telescope

ATLAS is back on the map.

Contrary to claims that 3I/ATLAS is no longer from Earth, space experts claim that the Manhattan-sized comet can now be captured by anyone with basic viewing equipment.

Astronomer Yicheng Zhang snapped an image of the interstellar anomaly on November 1st, uploading his killer shot in a post blowing up on Cometary.org.

“The comet is easily visible with small telescopes now,” Zhang, a postdoctoral fellow who studies small-body astronomy at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona , told The Post.

The astronomer explained in the post’s caption that he caught the particular shot using a 152-mm Ritchey–Chrétien reflector (a six-inch telescope with a curved rather than flat focus ), adding that 3I/ATLAS’s increased visibility is because it’s “rising early e