Comet Nishimura at Dawn
Taken by Alan Dyer on September 7, 2023 @
near Gleichen, Alberta
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Camera Used: Canon Canon EOS R5
Exposure Time: 30/1
Aperture: f/2.5
ISO: 400
Date Taken: 2023:09:07 11:12:08
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Here is Comet Nishimura (C/2023 P1) captured at dawn on September 7, 2023 with the sky beginning to brighten with morning twilight colours. Plus the last quarter Moon was lighting the sky and landscape with moonlight.
The comet appears with Venus, at right in the wider field image taken with a 70mm lens, now beginning its morning sky appearance for 2023/24. In the wide-field image the star cluster Messier 44, the Beehive, is at top right. The smaller Messier 67 star cluster is just above Venus.
The closer telephoto image (with a 135mm lens) was taken a few minutes later in a brighter sky.
The comet was set amid the stars of the Sickle astersism of Leo the Lion, just rising in the east. The comet sports a faint blue ion tail, about 3° long, with the comet seemingly pointed toward the sunrise point; it was moving down and closer to the Sun at this time.
Photographer's website:
https://www.amazingsky.com
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