Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-Atlas)
Taken by Peter Tarr on October 19, 2024 @
Bayside, Queens, NYC
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Camera Used: OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP. E-PL7
Exposure Time: Unavailable
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ISO: 800
Date Taken: Unavailable
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This is not submitted to wow anyone; only to encourage urbanites with astro interests and to prove that effort is not futile. The fading comet, now about mag 4, is way below naked-eye visibility in NYC (it was only so for a day or two, over a week ago), but a bit of hunting with binos, or speculative time exposures with a telephoto will quickly reveal the comet. Here, with very crude processing, one can see evidence of a tail that perhaps extends out ~ 7 degrees or so--not bad from the Big City! I think the anti-tail would only have been visible with tracking and stacking, which I did not do. This image, Nikkor 135mm on a micro 4/3cam, effective FL = 270mm, 5sec ISO 800
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