comet Maccholz from ground
Taken by Nicolas Lefaudeux on January 31, 2023 @
Forges-les-Bains, France
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I managed captured comet Maccholz at perihelion only 4 degrees from the sun! The comet is followed by SOHO spacecraft, but not imaged from the ground. I took advantage of an unexpected cloud break this afternoon.
to image the comet so close to the sun, I used a Newtonian telescope tube, on which I replaced the primary mirror by a refractor objective. in this "reversed" configuration the beam of the comet gets reflected to the camera, while the dangerous sun beam exits the tube.
the conditions were far from ideal, with only partial cloud break and low altitude of the winter sun. yet, it proves "small" sungrazing comets can be imaged from the ground by amateurs using simple means!
Photographer's website:
https://hdr-astrophotography.com/
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