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Comet C/2023 A3 next to the Milky Way and over the San Juan River, Utah. There's a big oxbow cutoff canyon that the river flows in that's barely visible in the dark portion of this photograph. As with my earlier comet photos, a moonlight, fill light is really helpful when photographing comets. Some moonlight would have been helpful to illuminate the canyon walls in this shot.
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About an hour's worth of C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) setting over a dry lake in rural Australia, as the Milky Way appears.
The very very bright thing on the left is Venus.
The completely ridiculous streaks that look like anti-aircraft fire are all spamlink and frankly I had rather not had any of those in my photos, but apparently a fascist billionaire and a US government agency get to decide that I have to π
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This was probably the last opportunity for me to catch the comet. Shot at 430mm with a Tracking telescope. 7 shots with 20 seconds exposure time each. Stacked in Siril.
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Cloudy this evening, but here's my shot of Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) last night βοΈ
It's a 9 min stack of 5 sec images with my DSLR+85mm lens on a tripod, unguided, so the stars are slightly trailed π€·ββοΈ
I've removed a gradient due to light pollution over Mannheim, but there some residuals as I've kept the sky bright to trace the tail extending 10ΒΊ towards Ξ² Oph & the IC4665 cluster at top-left & see the faint anti-tail below π
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Eduardo Robaina observes the comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) from inside a cave in Temisas, on the island of Gran Canaria, Spain. REUTERS/Borja Suarez
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After several attempts but non-success, last night I drove out to mountains to have dinner with friends, where a brief 15 minute window of opportunity to finally capture it emerged.
Was FINALLY able to get ~2 mins of data, but finally saw C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS).
We had only about 15 mins before the sky was dark enough after sunset to get set up and capture comet photons.
It was brief, but it was beautiful. For the first time, I saw a comet with my eyes through binocs (as opposed to a screen). Venus looked marvellous as well.
Have also included an annotated diagram merging the wide-angle shot taken with the DSLR and the more zoomed-in version captured with Seestar S50.
Comets are trolls but they are neat when you see them! π
I was about to give up on this with the clouds. Thankful for that small window of opportunity!
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Brought out my 70-200 mm and set up my tripod in the middle of the road outside my home looking like an idiot, bit it was so worth it to get this more up close and personal shot of comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS. Also managed a hint of the anti-tail.
This is my first time stacking my astroshots and noticing that the quality is so much better!
π· Sony A7R IV
π Sony FE 70-200 mm f/4 G OSS
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β±οΈ 1/1 (37 shots stack)
π³οΈ f/4
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Los Angeles, California, US
#Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-Atlas) streaks across the sky over Joshua Tree national park
Photograph: Qian Weizhong/VCG/Getty Images
And in case you want some scale for the comet, this is what it looks like not through a zoom lens. First image is when it just started to show as the horizon glows orange from the sunset and second image is about 30 minutes later when the sky was a lot darker, but still a bit of horizon glow.
See my feed for a comet-only photo, but I thought showing some scale may make you decide to GO LOOK AT IT! This is a once-in-lifetime type of comet to see so nicely with the naked eye.
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Rogelio Bernal Andreo captured this image of #CometC2023A3 on 13 October at around 19:35 from San Luis Reservoir, California. He used a Canon 70-200mm lens @ 145mm, and a Sony a7s camera. No tracking. #Astrophotography
Visit his website: http://deepskycolors.com
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Comet C/2023 A3 (TsuchinshanβAtlas) is seen near Lecce
Photograph: Manuel Romano/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock
Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) on 13 Oct, as seen from the Sacramento mountains of southern New Mexico. (Elevation 9,000 feet.)
Look at that anti-tail!
1st image is a stack of 48 15-second exposures as twilight was fading. The sky brightness gradient makes it difficult to see all the faint features in the tail equally well. But the twilight colors are beautiful.
In the 2nd image software has subtracted away the sky brightness and color and contrast has been boosted a great deal.
The anti-tail is not only visible, it now is easy to see a central spine in it.
Note that many satellite/aircraft tracks are also visible. When I stacked the image I used a simple average algorithm and did not use any rejection algorithms. Rejection algorithms can remove most satellite trails, but when the image has a large sky gradient, you can sometimes get strange results.
Image covers 10 x 6.6 degrees.
Tomorrow, I need a wider lens.
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Live--from the Sonoran desert (well, actually, from about 30 minutes ago), it's comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS in the Arizona evening sky!
(Quick edit as my travel laptop is pretty old and junkie with a low resolution monitor that is not color corrected.) [10/27 update: Now that I'm home I've updated the photo with a properly edited version.]
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#Comet #ATLAS near Las #Vegas, NV [OC][2500x1665] #Astrophotography #EarthPorn #SpacePorn
https://www.reddit.com/r/EarthPorn/comments/1g3ak9v/comet_atlas_near_las_vegas_nv_oc2500x1665/
Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS in the Arizona evening sky, again! This time diving into the Grand Canyon! I can't believe my luck. I planned this trip several months ago before the comet was even on my radar. Now I find myself comet chasing!
[10/27 update: Now that I'm home I've updated the photo with a properly edited version.]
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Hey, it's #Comet day!
Today's the first chance of seeing C/2023 A3 in the evening sky, although to be clear I'm not hopeful. It's still very close to the sun, which is famous for being very bright, so odds are that it won't penetrate the glow of twilight. But you never know, so I'll be out this evening with binoculars and camera looking for it.
If we don't find it, we try again tomorrow, and the night after. It's moving through the sky rapidly enough that you'll need a fresh map each night, but those are easy to find online (search for "C/2023 A3 finder chart" or something), or just get an up-to-date app.
Here's a pair of charts for tonight, in Gauteng, South Africa, generated by Stellarium. First is daytime, so you can see where it is relative to the Sun, and the second is in evening twilight so you can compare it to stars and star-like objects (like Venus).
Note that the view from different continents will be rotated somewhat, so I recommend finding charts suitable for your one location
