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CW: Comet 12P visibility from Melbourne, star charts
Cloudy here so this is all theoretical, but anyone at my latitude (38°S) looking for comet 12P Pons-Brooks: here is a schematic of the WNW sky at 6.30 pm on 20 Apr (tonight) and 25 Apr (as the comet recedes and the moon stops being a problem). The comet is 10° above the horizon, probably requiring binoculars or a digital camera like a phone to see. #12p #comet #comet12p #astronomy #stargazing
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Too bad: The clouds were eventually gone, but when it finally got dark enough to make out #Comet12p #PonsBrooks on the photos of my amateur camera, it disappeared behind the trees. So, no chance of getting a shot of its tail. 🙁
Still: A nice constellation of the crescent Moon, Jupiter (with three of its own moons), and Uranus. 🙂
(photos: @kernpanik | license: public domain as described in CC-0 https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en)
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… For comparison, here's an #OOC (out-of-camera) JPEG.
#Fujifilm #Comet #PonsBrooks #Comet12P #12PPonsBrooks #astrophotography
(photo: @kernpanik | license: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en) -
How convenient: #Comet 12P #PonsBrooks was “visible” from our living room window tonight right after dinner. So I took the chance to take some photos with my hobby equipment, which is hardly made for #astrophotography (at least I had a Bahtinov mask to help focussing).
Camera: #FujifilmXT2 mirrorless
Lens: #Fujinon #XF150to600 @ 600mm F/8This is a stack of 8 photos, processed by hand in Adobe Photoshop.
#Fujifilm #Comet12P #12PPonsBrooks
(photo: @kernpanik | license: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en)