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#Comet #12P #PonsBrooks below Jupiter sinking into the murk on April 11. Probably my last opportunity for this one

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#Comet #12P #PonsBrooks (bottom center) below the #Moon last night, a bit later, more exposure and more frames than the previous shot. Again somewhat fake: Composite of the same stack aligned separately on the moon and stars.
Also visible: #Jupiter, Callisto, Ganymede, maybe Europa if you squint at the glare around Jupiter, and #Uranus (relatively bright blueish object almost directly above Jupiter)
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#Comet #12P #PonsBrooks (very faintly visible, upper left) over the #Moon last night. This is a somewhat fake composite of 100 4 second frames, aligned separately on the stars, moon and foreground. Too close to twilight to get much of the comet

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#Timelapse of the frames used for that #Comet #12P #PonsBrooks shot up thread. So many more satellites, a few years ago I'd expect maybe 3-4 or in a shot like this. Doesn't really affect anything in this case (unlike the airplanes, which were bright enough to show up in a 240 frame average after stretching) but definitely noticeable
https://flic.kr/p/2pH2hqi

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#Comet #12P #PonsBrooks last night. Proper tail now, even with my unguided 10 year old P&S (Canon G7 X, 240x5s, ISO 800, 100mm EFL, aligned on the comet and stacked with hacky #gmic scripts and tortured in #gimp)

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#photography #astrophotography #stars

#photo of the #comet my son shot last #night.

#12P #PonsBrooks #dwarfii

Three protagonists of the evening sky!
#Jupiter (top left), #Mercury (bottom middle, just above the roof) and comet #12P #PonsBrooks right above the church tower. For those wanting to spot the #comet, this should give some guidance where to find it (as well as some impression on how bright it currently is).

Ein „Teufelskomet“ zu Ostern: Der Komet 12P/Pons-Brooks, ein "großer Bruder" des Halleyschen Kometen, ist jetzt am Himmel zu sehen. #Komet #12PPonsBrooks #Teufelskomet #PonsBrooks #Astronomie
https://www.scinexx.de/news/kosmos/ein-teufelskomet-zu-ostern/

O.k., according to https://cobs.si/obs/comet/484/ #comet #12P #PonsBrooks is now at ~4.9 mag. about one magnitude brighter than at the beginning of the month - but it's not easier to see because it's closer to the Sun now. Here is a picture - 2.5 seconds at f/2.8 and ISO 1600 - from Bochum, Germany, 1/2 hour ago; comet 16° above, Sun 15° below the horizon: the arrow marks the comet which appears essentially as a green dot. NLM in the area was 3.0 mag. at best, the comet not visible in 8x30 binoculars.

… 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)

Djaffar nous partage son #astrophotographie de la #comète #ponsbrooks
Il s'est essayé à l'outil "Comet" de #pixinsight
#astronomy #astronomie #astrophotography #comet #12pponsbrooks

#Comet #12P #PonsBrooks and #M31 last night

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Half an hour of live (!) images of #comet #12P #PonsBrooks earlier this evening (from 18:30 UTC) through three different optics: https://www.youtube.com/live/YyU91nwRaRM

Noch ein Versuch Komet 12P/Pons-Brooks abzulichten. Diesmal zusammen mit der Andromedagalaxie. Hier sieht man ganz gut wie „hell“ der Komet aktuell ist.
Leider Dunst am Horizont, das macht das Bild nicht besser…
#astrofotografie #p12PonsBrooks #komet #comet #Astrodon #12P #ponsbrooks #andromeda #m31 #ngc224

Erster Versuch Komet 12P/Pons-Brooks abzulichten.
#astrofotografie #p12PonsBrooks #komet #comet #Astrodon #12P #ponsbrooks

O.k., here is what #comet #12P #PonsBrooks looks like these days with *advanced* astrophotography gear ... worlds apart from what small cameras, let alone binoculars under poor skies, reveal. Sources (with technical detail): https://twitter.com/Komet123Jager/status/1764214049468727358 and https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=7260774970704780

Yay, picked #comet #12P #PonsBrooks out of super-bad skies over #Bochum, Germany, with a #superzoom camera - on a tripod with a few seconds exposure - an hour ago. According to https://cobs.si/obs/comet/484/ the total coma magnitude is ~5.9 right now. 11x70 binoculars, normally quite good with comets, showed exactly nothing in this "sky" with a naked-eye limiting magnitude of ~2.3 - but the €300 camera saved the day, err, evening. 12P could get another 2.5 mag. = a factor 10 brighter: yes, please ...!

Checking in on #Comet #12P #PonsBrooks … still there, still pretty faint

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Tonight in low-tech #Comet hunting: #12P #PonsBrooks is there (center), and that's about all I can say about that

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