Another Try

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is seen to the right of The Milky Way.

Stayed up past bedtime for another crack at seeing Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS. It was more difficult to pick out, but with a little squinting I found it in a much higher position than the last time we spotted it. Without dark clear skies it would have been impossible to see.

The comet is racing away from us, back to the Oort Cloud, and getting dimmer and smaller by the day.

I took quite a few photos on different camera settings. Once I go through them I will share more here. The photo above is a panorama of six shots stitched in Adobe Lightroom. It was taken on a much higher ISO than I usually use for astrophotography, but was necessary with the lens I was using. Well worth losing some sleep over.

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  2. mountaincoward's avatar

    mountaincoward

    Well, from that, I can see you know far more about photography and post-processing than I ever will! Great photo – love the way the foreground is so luminous-looking – is that because of the 6 shots stitched together?

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      underswansea

      I don’t know that much about Photoshop and Lightroom. It does come in handy to stitch panoramas of the sky. The foreground is lit in the photo because there is a dock behind me with a light on it. It is just enough to light it up yet doesn’t obscure the sky. It is a happy coincidence of light and distance.

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