#comet12p — Public Fediverse posts

"in order to capture, or hopes to capture a souvenir image, one will need to have the ability to track the sky as it moves" - Challenge accepted, I guess. #Comet 10P/Tempel, barely visible in the moonlight on Aug 1, from a Canon G7 X P&S on a fixed tripod. 160x5s, ISO 400, F/3.2

(of course, I did track the sky digitally after the fact and it's definitely not visible in single frames, so the quote isn't really wrong)

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/catch-comet-10p-tempel-while-you-can

#Astrodon #Astrophotography #Comet12p

Do astrophotography, they said.
It’ll be fun, they said.
Take pretty photos of comets, they said.

And once again #comet12p is #starlinked #spamlink #astrophotography #astrodon

Okay, here we go again on #comet12p. Now with auto-focus and guiding 😬

A single 5 minute snap of #comet12p with the 50mm lens at f/4.

#astrophotography #astrodon #space

I need to do more collimation, obvs, but it’s already a lot better than yesterday.

1 minute of #comet12p Pons-Brooks as of 5 minutes ago.

#astrophotography #astrodon #space

An hours worth of data on #comet12p done, now it’s time for C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS). Rather a lot fainter, this is a single 5 minute exposure. Aiming to get 24 of these.

#astrophotography #Astrodon

Finally a half decent set of #comet12p images. Hurray! Made the camera stare at it while I was making dinner.

You can see it has two tails, though the nickname seems far fetched. More 🤙 than 😈 tbh.

22 x 60 seconds.

#astrophotography #Astrodon #space

Well I can see #comet12p okay tonight, but the spamlinking is continuous.

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks getting photobombed by the International Space Station. And a bunch of spamlinks. And a piece of tumbling junk.

#comet12p #astrophotography #Astrodon #space #Astronomy #ISS

A single 30 second sub on #comet12p Pons-Brooks about half an hour ago.

#Astronomy #Astrodon #astrophotography

Cleaned up after I got back home. The twilight is quite obvious; it was only 45 minutes after sunset. #comet12p #astrophotography #astronomy

Yep there it is. #comet12p #astronomy #astrophotography

Stalking the comet. #comet12p #astronomy #astrophotography

Caught #comet 12P again. From the countryside this time, with wider horizons but some smoke haze about.

Once the comet was low enough, I got an #ISS pass as a bonus 😃 Photographed it fading into Earths shadow about halfway up the eastern sky.

#comet12p #Astrodon #astrophotography

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)

Fritz Helmut Hemmerich photographed the comet from Tenerife in the Canary Islands.

Wow! #astrophotography #comet12p

https://www.spaceweather.com/

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks is visible in the night sky for observers in the northern hemisphere, offering a rare chance for professional and amateur astronomers to catch a glimpse of an object known for its spectacular outbursts of gas and dust.

#comet12p #astronomy

https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Planetary_Defence/Mother_of_Dragons_comet_visible_in_the_night_sky

… 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/8

This 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)

#astronomy #blog updated: https://sungazer127mak.blogspot.com/2024/03/march-2024.html #Comet12P #Moon #Sun #SevenSisters