Can you still see Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS tonight? Yes, but only if you know exactly where and when to look because it's getting fainter and smaller as it heads off to the Oort Cloud, a sphere around the solar system that's home to millions of comets like it.

Below are some helpful sky charts to help you locate the comet. You'll need them because comet A3 (also called C/2023 A3) is no longer a bright, naked-eye object in the post-sunset sky but remains a relatively bright, deep sky object visible well into true darkness. As a bonus, this week, there's no interference from the waning Hunter's Supermoon, so it's visible in a darker sky.

That alone makes it a good idea to escape light-polluted night skies if you want to see the comet. Swap the city for somewhere that looks dark on a light-pollution map with a western horizon free from the glare of a city. Another way is to locate a Dark Sky Place near you.

Although its magnitude of +2.6 makes it technically visible in a dark sky, you'll almost certainly require binoculars or a small telescope to see it. An alternative is to photograph the comet with a camera or a smartphone; a long exposure image helps it show up more easily.

Note: times and viewing instructions are for observers at mid-latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere. Check the exact time of sunset where you are and the comet's setting times on Stellarium Web for times that are accurate for your exact location.

Comet's distance from the sun: 71 million miles (115 million kilometers)

Comet's distance from Earth: 65 million miles (105 million kilometers)

If you can see Venus and the bright star Arcturus close to the western horizon, make them the endpoints of a coat-hanger shape -- the comet will be the hook above them.

If you can't see one of these (since they are relatively low on the horizon), instead use bright star Vega above due west. Draw an imaginary line straight to the horizon from Vega and make a coat-hangar shape on the left -- the comet will be the hook to the side. Scan with a pair of binoculars until you find it.