Happy Book Birthday to the brilliant Louie Stowell !! This looks great fun!

If you see this pic anywhere on social media do not Share it. It's fake. Actually it's an abomination, the result of a transporter beam accident which merged several different images into one screaming screeching monstrosity which didn't deserve to live longer than a few seconds.

Comet Pons-Brooks imaged from just outside Kendal, Cumbria, last night. Images S Atkinson - processed crops from stacks of multiple tracked images, taken using a Canon 700D DSLR/iOptron Sky Tracker/300mm lens

Comet Pons-Brooks imaged from just outside Kendal, Cumbria, last night. Images S Atkinson - processed crops from stacks of multiple tracked images, taken using a Canon 700D DSLR/iOptron Sky Tracker/135mm lens

The Mars rover NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover currently has a cracking view up Neretva Vallis... Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/S Atkinson

I was really hoping to get a nice pic last night of Comet Pons-Brooks low in the sky with its tail unfurled, but the sky was still bright by the time I lost it to cloud. Still, I managed to catch it close to Jupiter. These might be my last pics... :-(

Can you spot Ingenuity on this new image sent back by NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover on Sol 1114? Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/S Atkinson

Looks like large areas of UK will be clear this evening, so get out there & see Comet Pons-Brooks before it's gone. Find Jupiter low in the W as the sky darkens, the comet is just to its right, slightly lower. Binocs should pick it up if you look before it gets too low in the sky

As NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover prepares to drive away, a new portrait of Ingenuity, now at rest in a martian dune field after her amazingly successful mission... Original Sol 1110 images credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU, Additional processing: S Atkinson

I've been doing it since Pathfinder landed in 97 but I will *never* tire of seeing - or making - new views of the martian landscape. Stunning new Sol 1110 view from NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover Original images: NASA/JPL-Caltech Additional processing: S Atkinson

As @Perseverance prepares to drive away from Ingenuity, a new - distant - view of the helicopter that made history... Original sol 1110 images Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Additional processing: S Atkinson

Nights clear enough to see/image Comet Pons-Brooks from the north of England since January 1st? 14 out of 95. Pathetic, really. Our weather is well and truly screwed now.

Such a beautiful comet... Not that UK observers have seen much of it, with our godawful weather... 😠

...and slowly, but surely, Curiosity Rover is working her way up the slopes of Mt Sharp in Gale Crater. Here's the current view looking back over her shoulder, down to the crater floor and hills beyond... Original images: NASA/JPL-Caltech Additional processing: S Atkinson

...meanwhile, on Mars, NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover is driving away from Ingenuity, heading towards the valley that will eventually lead it out of Jezero Crater. Here's a new view, made from images taken on sol 1108 Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/S Atkinson

Looks like filming has already begun on Dune Messiah...

...meanwhile, on Mars, a nuclear-powered robot explorer pauses to survey its surroundings before setting off across the vast martian desert again... NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/S Atkinson

Comet Pons-Brooks finder chart for the week ahead. Use binocs to look for a 'fuzzy star' to the right of Jupiter, low in the west as twilight deepens. We'll lose this comet soon so any clear nights over the next week (hahaha!) get out there and look for it.