(KAIR)--A once in 80,000 year opportunity approaches this evening, Tuesday, October 15, and Atchison's Benedictine College is offering an opportunity to experience it first hand.

The celestial event, as a release from the college calls it, is the passing of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, as well as views of Saturn and the moon.

That will happen this evening, from 7 until 8:00, at the Daglen Observatory, located on the hill at the corner of Atchison- 3rd and N Streets. Admission is free.

According to a release from the college, the comet will also be visible to the naked eye for approximately the next week. Look south by southwest low on the horizon starting around 7:00 p.m. For better viewing, use binoculars, or an exposure of a few seconds with your phone.

The release notes that Comet Tsuchinshan - ATLAS was just discovered last year by an observatory in China and simultaneously by the ATLAS observatory in South Africa.