The movement of comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS is quite obvious from night to night. Here are a couple of images taken last night and the night before.

The comet’s now well on its lonely, icy way back to the Oort cloud.

I was hoping to do a fancy picture with the two images merged, but the program I was trying to use kept crashing. So you’re stuck with side by side images for now,

I also tried to get some telescope images last night, but neither the telescope nor the camera would cooperate. The telescope refused to save its alignment, so tended to wander off all over the place. The camera’s focus assist also decided to show a blank screen, so it was nearly impossible to get a good focus. It’s live update screen was also taking ages to update, when I need it to operate in real time. As a result, most of last night’s close ups weren’t very good.

There are days when every bit of technology I touch just seems to break.