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gergComet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), still putting on a show after its nucleus disintegrated. I wasn't able to see it this time, but still no trouble for a camera sensor. <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/c2024g3atlas?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#c2024g3atlas</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/c2024g3?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#c2024g3</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/comet?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#comet</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/space?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#space</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/astro?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astro</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/astrophotography?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astrophotography</a>

rdmOver the last week I've been going out every couple of nights and shooting C/2024 G3 Atlas as it slowly disintegrates after the front fell off.Here are a couple more of my Dwarf3 shots, along with one from my phone. One is very heavily processed to bring out the side-tails.20-50 frames of 15s at 80.<a href="https://aus.social/tags/dwarf3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dwarf3</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/c2024g3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#c2024g3</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Comet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Comet</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronomy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astrodon</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astrophotography</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/pixel6a" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pixel6a</a>

rdmWent comet chasing last night, got some great technically good shots. And this one. Which I love.Taken when the comet was less than one degree above the horizon, as it dived into the sea.A little cloud just rounds things out.25*15s@80, Dwarf3, post in Snapseed and Google Photos.<a href="https://aus.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronomy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#photography</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astrophotography</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astrodon</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/c2024g3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#c2024g3</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/comet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#comet</a>

Deborah Pickett<a href="https://old.mermaid.town/tags/CometC2024G3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CometC2024G3</a> tonight.<a href="https://old.mermaid.town/tags/Astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astrophotography</a> <a href="https://old.mermaid.town/tags/comet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#comet</a> <a href="https://old.mermaid.town/tags/C2024G3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#C2024G3</a>

cafuego 🔭🤦🏼‍♂️From a dark site with a flat horizon and a proper camera, comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is a stunner at the moment!Easily visible with the naked eye, with the tail visually extending for about 10 degrees.With a 30 second exposure at 70 mm f/8, the tail is maginficent! This is just a single snap. Yes, there are also *fifteen* 🤬 starlinks in this single photo. A new record for me 😡<a href="https://misanthrope.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astrodon</a> <a href="https://misanthrope.social/tags/astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astrophotography</a> <a href="https://misanthrope.social/tags/c2024g3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#c2024g3</a> <a href="https://misanthrope.social/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#space</a>

Deborah PickettQuite a bit of detail in that <a href="https://old.mermaid.town/tags/comet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#comet</a> image I took a few rights ago 👆 I was able to extract with Siril. <a href="https://old.mermaid.town/tags/CometC2024G3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CometC2024G3</a> <a href="https://old.mermaid.town/tags/C2024G3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#C2024G3</a> <a href="https://old.mermaid.town/tags/Astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astrophotography</a>

MarieToda la semana intentando verlo… hasta que ayer a eso de las 22, pese a la nubosidad costera apareció <a href="https://lile.cl/tags/Lipimavida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lipimavida</a> <a href="https://lile.cl/tags/C2024G3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#C2024G3</a>

cafuego 🔭🤦🏼‍♂️When you automate the camera bit, so you can use your eyeballs, you end up with time lapse data. The camera was on a tracker, so the comet stays centered whilst the building rises up to meet it. <a href="https://misanthrope.social/tags/comet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#comet</a> <a href="https://misanthrope.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astrodon</a> <a href="https://misanthrope.social/tags/c2024g3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#c2024g3</a>

cafuego 🔭🤦🏼‍♂️And here is the proper camera result of C/2024 G3 (Atlas). Not stunning, given it's from the center of a city of 1.2 million people, but also not terrible. It was not too hard to spot the <a href="https://misanthrope.social/tags/comet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#comet</a> by eye to aim the camera.Single 10 second shot at 200mm f/8 ISO 100.<a href="https://misanthrope.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astrodon</a> <a href="https://misanthrope.social/tags/c2024g3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#c2024g3</a>

Mark McCaughreanEarlier this week, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) made its closest approach to the Sun.While doing so, it made a dramatic appearance sweeping through the wide-field LASCO C3 coronagraph of the ESA/NASA SOHO mission over a few days.Here’s my take, a triplet of Deep Red, Orange, & Blue filter images taken over an hour around 09:00UTC on 14 January, as an RGB composite.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/C2024G3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#C2024G3</a> 💫 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CometATLAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CometATLAS</a> ☄️ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Perihelion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Perihelion</a> 🌞 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Photography</a> 📷 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpaceScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpaceScience</a> 🛰️

AkaSci 🛰️Here is an outstanding pic of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) taken by astronomer and nightscape photographer Yuri Beletsky in the southern hemisphere from the ESO observatory in Paranal in the Atacama desert in Chile.Canon R6 + 70-200/2.8 @ 200mm, 15 x 1 sec <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DE7_iz5JbQM/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/p/DE7_iz5JbQM/</a>Yuri's artwork is available for purchase at <a href="https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/yuri-beletsky/shop" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/yuri-beletsky/shop</a><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Comet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Comet</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/C2024G3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#C2024G3</a> 8/n

rdmLast 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.<a href="https://aus.social/tags/c2024g3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#c2024g3</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/comet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#comet</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astrodon</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astrophotography</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronomy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/dwarf3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dwarf3</a>

Simeon SchmaußWhat a beauty! This is comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) passing through the field of view of the LASCO C3 coronagraph. It wasn't for certain whether it would survive it's closest approach to the sun on January 13th, but it did and delivered us a spectacular show! <a href="https://flic.kr/p/2qFGG1e" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://flic.kr/p/2qFGG1e</a><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/comet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#comet</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/C2024G3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#C2024G3</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#space</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astrodon</a>

uxor :verified:<a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#astronomy</a> just seen the <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/comet" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#comet</a> <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/C2024G3" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#C2024G3</a> from France with binoculars 11x70. It's only 6° from the sun but with magnitude -3 you can see it few minutes just after sunset. It reminds me my first shot of comet <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/C2006P1" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#C2006P1</a> MacNaught 18 years ago :<a href="http://astrosurf.com/rouxph/cometes/C2006P1.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">http://astrosurf.com/rouxph/cometes/C2006P1.html</a><a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/astronomie" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#astronomie</a> <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/comete" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#comete</a>

André<a href="https://universeodon.com/@KrajciTom" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@KrajciTom</a> Addition of only eight frames (... long story .... ) Still not a beauty, but definetely the comet in broad daylight, ~ 12:15h UT in <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/Aachen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Aachen</a> :-D <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronomy</a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/c2024g3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#c2024g3</a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/comet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#comet</a>

AndréExtremer Stretch einer Einzelaufnahme hier (in <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/aachen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aachen</a>) vom Büroparkplatz. Das *könnte* C/2024 G3 ATLAS sein .... Hier fliegen allerdings auch haufenweise Spinnen und Pollen durch die Luft. Ich hab ein paar Aufnahmen zum Addieren. Das geht aber erst heute Abend .... <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronomy</a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/comet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#comet</a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/c2024g3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#c2024g3</a>

TomKrajci 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) - seen by the C3 coronograph on SOHO.Download these images from: <a href="https://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/pub/lasco/lastimage/level_05/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/pub/lasco/lastimage/level_05/</a> ...specifically, go to the desired date, and camera (C3), such as: <a href="https://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/pub/lasco/lastimage/level_05/250113/c3/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/pub/lasco/lastimage/level_05/250113/c3/</a>Images are in FITS format, which can be processed by GIMP: <a href="https://www.gimp.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.gimp.org/</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_and_Heliospheric_Observatory" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_and_Heliospheric_Observatory</a>The comet is within hours of perihelion. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2024_G3_(ATLAS)" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2024_G3_(ATLAS)</a>1st image is in IR. Three tails seen.2nd image is visible light. The brightest part of the comet is grossly overexposed, but faint tail details are seen. I enhanced visibility with unsharp masking.When you download FITS files, also get a copy of the img_hdr.txt file because it tells you which file was taken with which filter.3rd image is what NASA puts up for public consumption, but the scaling/histogram manipulation makes all parts of the comet white and featureless. <a href="https://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/c3/1024/latest.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/c3/1024/latest.html</a><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Comet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Comet</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/SOHO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SOHO</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Coronograph" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Coronograph</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/FITS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FITS</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/GIMP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GIMP</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ImageProcessing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ImageProcessing</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/C2024G3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#C2024G3</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astronomy</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astrophotography</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Photography</a>

AkaSci 🛰️The best vantage point for observing Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is in space. Which is where astronaut Don Pettit took this stunning photograph from, perched with his camera behind a window in the NASA ISS at ~400 km altitude, on Jan 11. ☄️ 🚀 <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Comet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Comet</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/C2024G3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#C2024G3</a> 2/n

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