We got extremely lucky and got a tiny window of cloudless sky in an never ending sequence of cloudy nights. Also the conditions were a nightmare with severe light pollution and lights shining directly at our equipment.

  • Samyang 135mm f2.0
  • Fuji X-T5
  • 158 x 5s
  • ISO 125
  • @f2.8

And maybe somebody here can explain to us what the ionized gas is that 'shoots out‘ in front of the comet?

Also do the colours seem to be correct? We tried our best at background extraction and maintaining the true colour, but the raw data was of poor quality. From images of other comets the dust tails normally seems to have a yellow/orange colour and only the plasma tail is blue.

Edit: found the answer to the Anti-tail. It shows the trail of dust were the comet has traveled, which appears to come out at the opposing side because of earths angle relative to the comet and sun.

  • Zachariah@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Yours is beautiful.

    This was all I could get with long exposure on my phone when the sky was dark enough but the comet had not yet set. It’s flat here, so this was the clearest view of the horizon and (despite those lights) the darkest area I could find. To the naked eye, it was a smudge. The bright spot only shows in the pic.