Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS - Rising Sequence
in the Morning sky
Sept 23, 2024
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comet is still coming in, and for a week will be barely popping
its head over the morning eastern horizon. Here, it was only
a few degrees up and a series of images taken over a 3 minute
interval was used to assemble this composite. The spacing here
is bout 40 seconds and the Earths rotation made the comet rise
rather fast as the morning twilight blew the comet away. There
was perhaps only a 5 minute window to shoot it, the mount was
pointed at the comets position when it was below the horizon
about 8 degrees, and I closely watched the sky encroach into
the frame. As soon as the comet cleared the horizon is when I
took this set. |
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Scope: RASA 8" f/2
Camera: ASI2600 MC Pro
Platform: IOPTRON GEM45
Exposure: 190 seconds total
Location: Payson, Arizona
Elevation: 5150 ft.
Sky: Seeing 4/10, Transparency 6/10
Outside Temperature: 55F
Processing Tools: PI, Maxim DL, Photoshop CS2
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