Saturday, October 26, 2024

10/26/24

 This past week I decided to head out to Milford Lake and see if I could catch the comet with some nice scenery instead of where I took it before.  It was a lovely evening and the sky was very clear and I could see the Milky Way overhead so I decided to capture that as well.  When I got home and was looking at my photos I saw that I had captured the comet in these photos as well which was a very nice surprise.  This is a stack of 6 images to reduce noise and improve clarity.  The comet was quite a bit fainter now and could not be seen by the naked eye, I had to use my phone on Night Sight to find where to point my camera to capture it.  It is Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-Atlas and is heading away from us on it's 800 year journey around the sun.  





2 comments:

  1. Nice double play Shelly
    What shutter speed did you use?

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    1. Thanks Jim! I was shooting an 18mm at f6.3 for 15 seconds.

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