The Fall
Lonely galaxies watch a passing comet slip away through the integrated flux.
This is a shot from May of this year. The comet is C/2017 T2 (PANSTARRS), not the current superstar comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE). T2 PANSTARRS spent three nights drifting past galaxies M81 and M82 before moving on. I caught this on the middle of those three nights. Unlike NEOWISE, T2 PANSTARRS was never bright enough to see unaided, and required a very long lens or small telescope to effectively photograph, so images of T2 PANSTARRS are comparatively rare. As you can see, the two comets feature very different tails. 2020 has already proven to be quite the year for Comets.
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The Fall
Lonely galaxies watch a passing comet slip away through the integrated flux.
This is a shot from May of this year. The comet is C/2017 T2 (PANSTARRS), not the current superstar comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE). T2 PANSTARRS spent three nights drifting past galaxies M81 and M82 before moving on. I caught this on the middle of those three nights. Unlike NEOWISE, T2 PANSTARRS was never bright enough to see unaided, and required a very long lens or small telescope to effectively photograph, so images of T2 PANSTARRS are comparatively rare. As you can see, the two comets feature very different tails. 2020 has already proven to be quite the year for Comets.
See on Fluidr
To see more of my work and to buy prints visit www.jklovelacephotography.com/pages/space