Comet Lapse ☄️

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 🖕

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Cloudy this evening, but here's my shot of Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) last night ☄️

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 🤷‍♂️

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 10º towards β Oph & the IC4665 cluster at top-left & see the faint anti-tail below 👍

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