On January 2023, the brightest comet since Neowise C/2020 F3 was discovered by the Chinese observatory which is situated in the Tsuchishan Mountains (Purple Mountains). Initially, the comet was classified as an asteroid with ~*mag 23, In April 2023 the comet could also belated confirmed by the PanSTARRS observatory in Hawai'i as part of the ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestical-impact Last Alert System) program.

When I received the report of the comet I jokingly thought, 500 times to sleep and the show begins ;-). After 500 sleep units the comet reached the sun near orbit and could be observed with the naked eye from Earth. The comet reached the brightness of (-3) - (-4) *mag during the solar passage from October 8th to 10th and was lined up in the top three brightest comets of the last 100 years. Allegedly day images before sunset were taken from the comet but I haven't seen any convincing results until now. Tsuchi was positioned in the perihelion (closest point to the sun) on October 3rd. The closest distance to Earth was at October 12th with 0.47 AU, which corresponds to 71 million kilometers.

Observations: Several attempts in South Germany to see the comet during its approach on September 26/27/28/September failed miserably because I was confronted with low-lying cloud banks that appeared suddenly during the observations. During the further observations from the 12th October onwards mostly suboptimal weather conditions like  fog banks, haze and the waxing moon / full moon disturbed intensively.