Dorset stargazers are urged to watch the skies as a comet is visible this month.
A recently identified comet has suddenly become visible to the unaided eye.
Comet Neowise, discovered in late March by a space telescope, is going to be visible from anywhere in the UK for the rest of July.
Among the spotters locally was Adam Locke who saw it in the north-east sky near Dorchester in the early hours of Tuesday.
Formally named C/2020 F3, the comet was first spotted by the NEOWISE space telescope on March 27 and will reach its closest point to Earth on July 23.
It is best viewed at about 2.30am in the north-east sky anywhere in the country.
The comet survived its closest approach to the sun late last week and is now making its way closer to Earth before it is expected to return to the outer solar system, according to NASA.
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