Draco Comet C/2023 E1 (Atlas)
Taken by Bill Williams on July 15, 2023 @
Chiefland Astro Village, Florida, USA
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Camera Used: Canon Canon EOS 60D
Exposure Time: 30/1
Aperture: f/inf
ISO: 3200
Date Taken: 2023:07:18 20:15:45
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Figured I'd better make my visit to Comet C/2023 E1 (Atlas) before it gets fainter post-perihelion and ion tail likely disappears. But summer at the Chiefland Astronomy Village in north Florida is no picnic -- sweltering heat and humidity, clouds of all genre, nightly lightning shows, and smoke from Canada and dust from Africa!! Nevertheless, I managed to capture a few photons from the comet and present here in several forms. The gif animation consists of 2 hours of 5-minute exposures showing the faint ion tail transiting a low surface brightness Draco galaxy (arrow) I could not identify using SIMBAD Astro Database. Fluctuation in the comet coma during the animation is a result of a changing atmospheric milieu.
The inverted image is 2 hours of stacked exposures aligned on the comet nucleus.
Pretty comet! Looking forward to the next great comet ..... and to our first dry cold front, perhaps October! :0
Photographer's website:
https://WilliamsSeaAndSky.com
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