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Written by rdm on 2025-01-17 at 05:40

Last night we went down to Scarborough Beach, and hunted for C/2024 G3 Atlas - the current brightest comet.

It was still to close to the sun to see in the glare, but a bit after sunset my Dwarf3 had just enough dark to calibrate, and picked it up just 1 degree above the horizon!

The telescope had just enough time to snap 10 frames and stack them.

[#]c2024g3 #comet #astrodon #astrophotography #astronomy #dwarf3

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Written by rdm on 2025-01-17 at 05:43

@leece is particularly grumpy that her Dwarf3 was convinced that it was already below the horizon.

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Written by TomKrajci 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ on 2025-01-17 at 15:01

@rdm

Down Under will keep getting better and better views as the comet climbs higher. Up in the northern hemisphere the comet is like a shark cruising by...just the tip of a fin is sticking up and it'll be gone in several days.

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