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Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS over Egypt’s Black Desert
Title: Interstellar Visitor Over the Black Desert
From the heart of Egypt’s Black Desert, where volcanic hills rise like silent sentinels and acacia trees stand alone against the night, an object from another star system drifts through our sky — interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS.
In this frame, the faint green glow of 3I/ATLAS slips between the desert trees, a visitor older than our Sun, passing through the Solar System only once before returning to interstellar space. The comet’s subtle cyan hue comes from faint CN gas emission in its coma, a chemical fingerprint shared with distant comets but arriving here from a planetary system we will never see.
This image was captured using a Nikon Z6 (astro-modified) paired with a RedCat telescope lens, pushed to 3× optical zoom to achieve an effective focal length of ≈750 mm — enough to isolate this rare traveler against the desert horizon.
To reveal the comet’s structure and faint gas halo, the scene was stacked from:
60 exposures × 60 seconds at ISO 1500
60 exposures × 30 seconds at the same gain
These long integrations allowed the comet’s delicate coma and motion against the background stars to emerge clearly, even under the extremely dark Saharan skies.
An interstellar grain of cosmic history, captured from one of Earth’s most ancient landscapes.
Credit :
Osama Fathi – Night Sky Watcher
Social:
www.instagram.com/osama.fathi.nswatcher85/
Kind regards
Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS over Egypt’s Black Desert
Title: Interstellar Visitor Over the Black Desert
From the heart of Egypt’s Black Desert, where volcanic hills rise like silent sentinels and acacia trees stand alone against the night, an object from another star system drifts through our sky — interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS.
In this frame, the faint green glow of 3I/ATLAS slips between the desert trees, a visitor older than our Sun, passing through the Solar System only once before returning to interstellar space. The comet’s subtle cyan hue comes from faint CN gas emission in its coma, a chemical fingerprint shared with distant comets but arriving here from a planetary system we will never see.
This image was captured using a Nikon Z6 (astro-modified) paired with a RedCat telescope lens, pushed to 3× optical zoom to achieve an effective focal length of ≈750 mm — enough to isolate this rare traveler against the desert horizon.
To reveal the comet’s structure and faint gas halo, the scene was stacked from:
60 exposures × 60 seconds at ISO 1500
60 exposures × 30 seconds at the same gain
These long integrations allowed the comet’s delicate coma and motion against the background stars to emerge clearly, even under the extremely dark Saharan skies.
An interstellar grain of cosmic history, captured from one of Earth’s most ancient landscapes.
Credit :
Osama Fathi – Night Sky Watcher
Social:
www.instagram.com/osama.fathi.nswatcher85/
Kind regards