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Cometa de color azul el 19-1-2018 a su paso por Taurus con mag.11, la estrella mas brillante de la foto es 43 Tau de mag. 5.5
Pentax K50 - SMC Pentax-A 28mm F2.8
Début juillet, la comète NEOWISE a atteint la magnitude +17,8, dépassant ainsi largement la luminosité atteinte par C/2020 F8 (SWAN), et développe une seconde queue. La première queue est bleue et composée de gaz et ions. Il y a également une séparation rouge dans la queue causée par de grandes quantités de sodium. La deuxième queue est de couleur dorée et est composée de poussières cométaires, comme la queue de la comète Hale-Bopp. Cette combinaison est proche de celle de la comète C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS). NEOWISE est plus brillante que C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS) en mars 2013, mais moins que ne l'était Hale-Bopp en 1997.
source : wikipedia
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Skywatcher 80mm F6 Refractor, 760D, CLS Filter, EQ6 go to mount.
Panstarrs M81 M82 3200 36m 44s 37 frames.
Comet C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS) is seen near M10 in Ophiuchus on the evening of July 14, 2022. The image was made of 40 fifteen second exposures taken with a Canon 80D and a Canon 200 mm f/2.8L II lens (ISO 800, f/3.5). Stacking was done with Nebulosity.
Skywatcher ED80 Pro (w/ QHYCCD Polemaster), Skywatcher EQM-35, Nikon D7500.
69 lights x 60s @ ISO 800, ~45 dark, ~45 flat, ~100 bias, stacked in DSS and post-processed in Photoshop.
Comet C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS), currently the brightest comet in the sky. This image is from the dark and clear morning of June 30th from suburban Bloomington, Ind., with the comet against the rich star background of the constellation Ophiucus. It will be getting a little closer to Earth in the next couple of weeks and so may still be a bit brighter, but will be up against a bright, full Moon, so this may be the best I can do.
29 frames, 180 sec. each. Explore Scientific ED102 102mm f/7 refractor, ZWO ASI294MC Pro cooled camera, UV/IR cutoff filter, iOptron CEM25P mount, auto-guided, ASIAir controller. Processed in Astro Pixel Processor, Lightroom, and Photoshop.
Images were combined twice, once with the stars aligned but the comet trailed and again with the comet registered but the stars trailed. These two rendered images were combined in Photoshop to produce the composite.
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Comet C/2017 T2 (PanSTARRS) is seen near the spiral galaxies M81 and M82 on the evening of May 25, 2020. The image was made of 78 twenty second exposures taken with a Canon 80D and a Canon 200 mm f/2.8L II lens. (ISO 800, f/3.5)
Comet C/2017 K2 Panstarrs and M10 in Ophiuco.
15 luglio 2022
Località: San Romualdo - Ravenna
Tecnosky Apo 130/900 su Avalon M1
Autoguida con Celestron OAG - QHY174m - PHDguiding2
QSI520ws raffreddata -7 - Filtri RGB Astrodon RGB GenII I-series
RGB: R (9x2'), G (9x2'), B (9x2') in Bin1
Acquisizione: MaximDL5 - immagine calibrata con bias e dark
Elaborazione: MaximDL5, Astroart6, Paint Shop Pro X2022, Topaz e StarSpikePro3 plug-in.
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Comet C/2017 T2 makes quite the photo op as it passes by Galaxies Messier M81 and M82 in the night sky this past Sunday night, May 24, 2020, in this image taken at Grand Mesa Observatory, www.grandmesaobservatory.com. Captured and processed by Terry Hancock and Tom Masterson.
Discovered on Oct. 2, 2017 by the PanSTARRS sky survey, this comet has put on quite the show this year. Here it's seen passing about one and a half degrees away from Bode's Galaxy (M81) and the Cigar Galaxy (M82). At about 12 million light-years distant, these galaxies would take a bit longer to get to than the 13.79 light-minutes it would take you to get from Earth to C/2017 T2. Next month around June 16, C/2017 T2 will make another close rendezvous in our night sky with another Galaxy, M109, coming within a degree of it. Then, on June 23, it'll be less than one degree from Galaxy M106. It is now visible in small telescopes or decent binoculars, a nice treat to those with dark and clear skies in the Northern Hemisphere!
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Technical Info:
Captured from Grand Mesa Observatory in Western Colorado on the May 24 2020 using the QHY367 Pro C Full Frame One Shot color CMOS camera on one of the Twin Takahashi E-180 Astrographs “System 4a”
Total Integration time: 2.1 hours
Image details
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colo.
38.963365, -108.237225
Dates of capture: May 24, 10:49pm - May 25, 1:02am
Color RGGB 125 min, 25 x 300 sec
Camera: QHY367 Pro C Color CMOS
Gain 2850, Offset 76
Calibrated with flat, Dark & Bias
Optics: Takahashi E-180 Astrograph
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6
Pre Processed in Pixinsight and Deep Sky Stacker
Post Processed in Photoshop CC
in center , taken remotely from New Mexico Skies observatory . Comet was passing close to NGC 1528 /10 o'clock/ Open Cluster in Perseus constellation , I did not reduce stars this time .
El cometa C/2017 K2 PanSTARRS acercándose visualmente a M10. El cometa C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS) es un cometa de la nube de Oort con una órbita hiperbólica entrante, descubierto en mayo de 2017 a una distancia más allá de la órbita de Saturno cuando estaba a 16 AU (2400 millones de km) del Sol. El cometa con un brillo de magnitud 9 se encuentra a 2 U.A. de la Tierra y exhibiendo una cola de polvo de más de medio grado de longitud.
La imagen se tomo en la noche del 15 de julio desde Namibia, el día 14 fue el punto mas cercano a la Tierra.
Messier 10 es un cúmulo globular que se encuentra en Ophiuco y se encuentra a 14300 años luz de nosotros, alejandose a una velocidad de casi 272.000 km/h
Se utilizó un telescopio remoto H8 f2.9 Hyperbolic, longitud focal de 590 mm, cámara QHY 600 M , LRGB 33 minutos, sito en la granja Hakos (Skygems).
Procesado con Pixinsight y PS
Comet C/2017 K2 PanSTARRS visually approaching M10. Comet C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS) is an Oort cloud comet with an incoming hyperbolic orbit, discovered in May 2017 at a distance beyond the orbit of Saturn when it was 16 AU (2.4 billion km) from Saturn. Sun. The comet with a brightness of magnitude 9 is located at 2 A.U. from Earth and exhibiting a dust tail more than half a degree in length.
The image was taken on the night of July 15 from Namibia, on the 14th it was the closest point to Earth.
Messier 10 is a globular cluster located in Ophiuco and is 14,300 light years from us, receding at a speed of almost 272,000 km/h.
An H8 f2.9 Hyperbolic remote telescope, 590 mm focal length, QHY 600 M camera, LRGB 33 minutes, located at the Hakos farm (Skygems), was used.
Processed with Pixinsight and PS
On 01 Septermber 2022, Comet C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS) passed near IC4592.
I used 38 mins of LRGB comet data plus 11 hours of pure LRGB data of IC4592 taken from
Telescope.live AUS-2 observatory with the following equipment:
Takahashi FSQ-106ED
FLI PL16083
Astrodon LRGB filters
Comet 2017 K2 (PanSTARRS) is in the lower-right corner.
Sony A7R5
Sigma 40mm/F1.4 @ F2.8
total exposure time = 3.1 hr
see www.astrobin.com/wewoxq/ for more technical details.
Another collaboration between Tom Masterson and Terry Hancock
In this image taken at Grand Mesa Observatory, www.grandmesaobservatory.com. Comet C/2017 T2 takes another photo op as it passes by Galaxy Messier 106 (M106) in the night sky this past Tuesday night, June 23, 2020.
Discovered on Oct. 2, 2017 by the PanSTARRS sky survey, this comet has put on quite the show over the past couple months. Here it's seen passing within a degree from M106, a very close and beautiful event. While they might look really close to each other in this image If you were travelling at the speed of light it would take between 22 to 25 million light-years to reach M106 but only 14.5 light-minutes to reach Comet C/2017 T2.
Messier 106 is an intermediate spiral galaxy located in the constellation Canes Venatici and It’s is one of the largest and brightest nearby galaxies similar in size and luminosity to the Andromeda Galaxy.
A great write-up on Comet C/2017 T2 can be found on Universe Today at: www.universetoday.com/144774/catch-comet-t2-panstarrs-thi...
A real time tracker of Comet C/2017 T2 can be found here: theskylive.com/c2017t2-info
Wiki of M106: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_106
Technical Info:
Captured from Grand Mesa Observatory in Western Colorado on the June 23, 2020 using the QHY367 Pro C Full Frame One Shot color CMOS camera on the William Optics 156 Refractor Telescope.
Total Integration time: 2.1 hours
Image details
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colo.
38.963365, -108.237225
Dates of capture: June 23, 10:08pm - June 24, 12:17am
Color RGGB 125 min, 20 x 300 sec, 10 x 180 sec.
Camera: QHY367 Pro C Color CMOS
Gain 2850, Offset 76
Calibrated with flat, Dark & Bias
Optics: William Optics 156 Refractor Telescope
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6
Pre Processed in Pixinsight and Deep Sky Stacker
Post Processed in Photoshop
Taken from Mull Hill on the Isle of Man with the town lights in the distance being in N Ireland.
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on Feb 20 , 2020 , single 4 minutes exposure with ASI294C camera .Please support on INSTAGRAM - astroromi
This is a panorama made out of 5 13sec exposures. In this picture you can see the island Landegode, and over it you clearly see the auroras and Jupiter, but can you spot the Andromeda and comet Pan-STARRS? Best seen in large on black background. All coments are appreciated.
Camera: ZWO ASI 2400 MC PRO
Telescope: Takahashi Epsilon 180.
Mount AP 1100.
34x1minute subs at gain zero offset 40
The comet was drifting in Ophiuchus. It is near the center of the frame. I like this kind of widefield frame containing dark nebulae.
Sun Distance: 2.754au
Earth Distance: 1.836au
equipment: Sigma 40mmF1.4 Art and Canon EOS 6D-sp4, modified by Seo-san on Vixen AXD Equatorial Mount, auto guided at a star nearby with Fujinon 1:2.8/75mm C-Mount Lens, Pentax x2 Extender, ZWO ASI 120MM-mini, GPUSB, and PHD2 Guiding with comet tracking on
exposure: 8 times x 900 seconds, 7 x 240 sec, and 8 x 60 seconds at ISO 1,600 and f/3.5
First exposure started at 11:49:52 July 2, 2022 UTC.
site: 1,410m above sea level at lat. 37 45 03 North and long. 140 06 25 East in Shirabu pass at the border of Fukushima and Yamagata 福島山形県境白布峠.
Sky was dark and clear. SQML was 21.34. Wind was almost none. Ambient temperature was around 17 degrees Celsius or 63 degrees Fahrenheit. It was superb night.
comet C/2017 K2 (PANSTARRS), one of the brightest comets in the sky now, though still not very spectacular but with a prominent coma and nucleus but not much tail. It's nicely situated among the dense field of stars in the constellation Ophiucus.
This comet was discovered in 2017.
Minimum approach distance 170,000,000 miles.
Estimated nucleus of 11 miles.
Originated in the Oort cloud, traveling for 300 million years…
“C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS) is an Oort cloud comet with an inbound hyperbolic orbit, discovered in May 2017 at a distance beyond the orbit of Saturn when it was 16 AU (2.4 billion km) from the Sun... The comet is record breaking because it is already becoming active at such a distance. “ wiki
LRGB 30 minutes total exposure.
Takahashi FSQ-106ED, f3.6
FLI PL16083
IC Astronomy Observatory, Spain.
2022 July 15
LR
Credits: Eric Ganz / Telescope Live
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I better get my panSTARRS image up while the topic is still contemporary.
After four nights of being obscured behind clouds, the comet was finally visible. Not the show stopper that many were hoping for, but rather an almost impossible to see with the naked eye event.
I shot this from the Oakland hills from a park just above the LDS temple. The sunset was spectacular and then the comet slowly became visible to my cheap plastic 200mm lens.
If the moon wasn't in the sky I never would have found this comet.
We caught a perfect break in the marin headlands weather - the cliffs and hills around us were layered in fog when the moon and comet panstarrs finally came into view...
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Here's a quick Milky Way panorama taken during the time between capturing comets PanSTARRS and Catalina last night. Not my best, but not my worst either! About 20 shots with the 6D and Samyang 14mm lens at f/2.8 and 6400 iso, stitched using Microsoft ICE. That's a bit of Zodiacal Light at the far right, and the combined light of Ipswich and Brisbane on the far left.
La comète c/2017 t2 (panstarrs) prise à la 80ED et ASI1600MC Pro. 60 poses de 60s sous un ciel voilé avec quartier de lune.
This comet is getting ever closer to Earth. On the 14th July 2022 it’ll reach it’s closest point to Earth.
I captured this image on 1st July under not great conditions. I had cloud cover and bad atmospheric conditions. I managed to capture 31 good images with 180s exposure time.
This comet is currently passing through the Ophiuchus and on the 14th will pass close by the Messier 10 - a globular star cluster.
This comet has a huge coma (outer glow) which makes it quite interesting! Hopefully it’ll produce a brighter tail as the week progresses.
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Comet C/2017 T2 (PanSTARRS) is in the astronomy news this month and toward the end of last week (May 22, 2020) it paid an approved socially distanced visit to two bright galaxies - our old friends Messier 81 and 82. The rendezvous makes an image of beautiful contrast in color, shape, and form, all set in a field of colorful stars and even more distant galaxies, laced with an Integrated Flux Nebula background.
Notes on the galaxies: M81 (at the top) is 12 million light years from Earth and was first discovered by Johann Elert Bode in December 1774. It can be found in a small telescope about 10 degrees northwest of the constellation Ursa Major (the big dipper). The spiral arms of M81 are well defined and prominent. They contain easily resolved blue-green and red regions of new star formation. This beautifully symmetric galaxy is an example of what astronomers call a grand design spiral galaxy.
The galaxy below M81 near the center of the image is M82, sometimes called the cigar galaxy. It is a starburst galaxy and Hubble images reveal massive clusters of stars near the core of the galaxy (the red regions in the image). The average mass of one these clusters is 200,000 times the mass of our Sun and in this high density, energetic region new stars are being born at a rate 10 times that of our entire Milky Way galaxy. The cloudy background in the bottom portion of the image and elsewhere is Integrated Flux Nebula, reflection from dusty regions in the galaxy illuminated by the integrated light from the stars in the galaxy - very, very faint.
Comet C/2017 T2 (PanSTARRS) is just passing through and is now close to Earth. It was discovered by the Pan STARRS survey telescope on Haleakala on the island of Maui in Hawaii in 2017 when it was still beyond Saturn. It is in a hyperbolic orbit that is inclined 57 degrees to the plane of the solar system. It probably formed in the outer most part of the solar system - a dynamically new comet. This means it is not a periodic comet and will never return close to Earth. By the year 2025 it will be 15 times the distance from the Earth to the Sun (an astronomical unit or au) from us and magnitude 21. It is presently magnitude 11.7 and 1.7 au from Earth.
Constructing this image was a massive job and I worked on it pretty steadily over 3 days. Three factors contributed to the processing tasks, the comet is moving, we used a monochrome camera with 3 color filters (one shot color is always easier with comets), we used dithering between sub-exposures to generate the files for what is known as drizzle integration (this improves image quality when the pixels are under sampled - larger than the resolution of the telescope optics or the seeing). I collected 94 sub-exposures of 5 minutes each, making 4 hours and 42 minutes of total integration time on the night of May 21-22, 2020. PixInsight was the principle tool used for processing and resulted in a 64 megapixel drizzle integrated image. The telescope was the 8” RH 200 astrograph at FOAH Observatory, Magdalena, New Mexico, owned and operated by John W. Briggs. I controlled the telescope and camera from my house in Albuquerque remotely over the internet and John was onsite collaborating and minding the dome.
Time: 2020 May 23rd 00:50
Place: ITelescope, Mayhill, NM
Equipment: RASA 11'' + ZWO ASI071 pro
Exposure time: 2min*6 + 3min*3
Author: Chi-Jui Chen
Acknowledgment: Jeremy Chou provides observation time, and Evan Tsai provides some subs to form this work.
At the bottom-left corner of this image, which was taken using iTelescope T14 in New Mexico, is magnitude 11.5 comet 2015 ER61 (PanSTARRS). Total imaging time, through LRGB filters, was 42 minutes.
The comet looks small and green near the right lower corner. Mars and Saturn were bright in Scorpius. North is up.
The frame is noisy a bit unfortunately. The object was already low to the southwest, and data got poor.
Here is a closer view of the comet at the night.
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equipment: Zeiss S-orthoplanar 60mmF4 and Canon EOS 5Dmk2-sp2, modified by Seo-san on Takahashi EM-200 Temma 2 Jr, autoguided at a star nearby with hiro-design off-axis guider, SX Lodestar X2, and PHD Guiding
exposure: 1 time x 30 minutes, 1 x 15min, 1 x 4min, and 2 x 1 minute at ISO 1,600 and f/5.6
The first exposure started at 7:17:00 August 3, 2016UTC.
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Saturday night the sky was pretty much free of clouds and we took the boys again and went to Elk Island to see if we can finally spot the Panstarrs comet. We were in luck and we have finally spotted it when the sky has finally darken enough. I have taken my 200mm lens with me hoping for a shot of it with it, but was not successful.. Imagine my surprise when I look at my fish-eye lens shots and saw the thing on them! It is tiny and very faint, but it is there! Veni, vidi, vici!!! ;D
Comet C/2016 R2 (PANSTARRS) passes by the 'Seven Sisters' or more commonly known as the Pleiades Star Cluster between 7:16pm and 8:33pm PST 2/3/2018.
This image was featured on NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day 2/12/2018! apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180212.html
Comet C/2016 R2 has been quite the interesting comet with it's very deep blue tail and faint green coma. In this image the blue hue of it's tail makes it seem almost as if it's a part of the Pleiades since it closely resembles their color, however the comet being located close to Earth in our Solar System is only 348.2 million km or 19.36 light minutes away while the Pleiades are around 430 light-years distant.
Technical Info:
15x300" Light at 1600ISO
15x Dark
20x Bias
Camera: Canon 6D Hutech UV/IR Mod
Telescope: William Optics Star 71 Astrograph
Mount: Celestron Advanced VX
Guide Scope: Orion Mag Mini With SSAG
Capture Software: Backyard EOS
Stacking: Deep Sky Stacker
Processing: Photoshop CC
Date: 2/3/2018 7:16pm - 8:33pm PST
Location: Los Padres National Forest, CA
Skywatcher ED80 Pro (w/ QHYCCD Polemaster), Skywatcher EQM-35, Nikon D7500.
90 lights x 60s @ ISO 800, ~45 dark, ~45 flat, ~100 bias, stacked in DSS and post-processed in Photoshop.
Update December 2018: my next Death Valley workshop December 10 - 14 will enable us to pursue the Geminid meteor shower in addition to landscapes and Comet 46P/Wirtanen.
This was the best view of it I was able to get of Comet PANSTARRS back in March. The times I was able to catch it served as great practice for Comet ISON, which could make an excellent photographic subject for us in November and December 2013.
The peak night of the Geminid meteor shower in 2018 will be on night of December 13/14. I'll be leading a night photography workshop December 10-14 to pursue meteors in Death Valley as they increase in intensity leading up to the peak night, but we'll also have excellent opportunities to capture Comet 46P/Wirtanen as it peaks in intensity December 12-16.