Monday, November 4, 2024

COMET TSUCHINSHAN-ATLAS (C/2023 A3) Taken by Johnny Horne on October 14, 2024 @ Little Singletary Lake, White Oak, NC, USA




Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS had an obvious antitail, visible to a greater or lesser degree each night as it swung around the sun. This image a stack of twelve 30-second exposures made with an 8-inch Celestron RASA scope and an ASI2600MC-Pro camera near the end of evening twilight October 14, 2024. Shot from a site on state game land on the shore of Little Singletary Lake in Bladen County NC. Image processing was done mostly in Adobe Photoshop.... with BlurXterminator and NoiseXterminator RC Astro plug-in applied in Pixinsight.


Photographer's website:

https://www.picturefayetteville.com/Backyard-Universe-Gallery