C/2023 A3
C/2023 A3
Got lucky with a clear night.
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The top half captures exactly how it felt to see it from home with the naked eye, the bottom half with my binoculars.
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Are you in a very dark place? Might go hunting this evening as I didn't think it would be visible to the naked eye.
edit: Found a superb tracker here. You can stick in your location and time and it tells you where to look:
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I live between a city and a suburb, shielded from a lot of the light by hills, there's still quite a bit of glare behind my back but no lights towards the western horizon, which is where the comet just happens to be.
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What did you use to capture/process this?
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Both are shot on a Sony a7r (2013), the first was on a 35mm lens at f/4, ISO 640, 10s exposure. The second was with a 400mm lens at f/6.5, ISO 6400, 2s exposure. Both images were processes using RawTherapee to fix the contrast, colour, etc.
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Looks awesome! I'm planning to head out tonight to shoot it myself.
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By 8pm the sky was just dark enough that I could see it by eye in the burbs (lots of street lights). If you can go anywhere the slightest bit dark it should go well.
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Fantastic!
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