If you look west just after sunset just now, and you’re lucky enough to have a clear sky and not a lot of light pollution, then you just might see this comet.
I’m not that lucky, but I do have a camera with a 50mm lens. So last night I took some images of that area of the sky, stacked them, and there it was. I’ll need to do a post on the equipment I used for this. I’ve been doing quite a bit of experimenting over the last few months and this is a new setup. But that’s for another day.
A close up, using the smart Seestar S50 telescope, showed up some beautiful detail.
These two images were taken about an hour apart. Notice how far the comet has moved relative to the background stars.
You can find out more about this comet at the Sky at Night web site.
https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/comet-c-2025-a6-lemmon
Real time charts of its position are also available online.
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