Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS)

[Fen Wolf]

Got the comet!  
prepare for beauty taken on my iphone.  Sadly i couldn’t get a pic through the binoculars lenses so i just zoomed in.  I also fell over on the concrete and got angry  

 

 

[Fen Wolf]

 ChannelThunder i am just glad i got pics never seen them before like the train so was very happy and had comet in view naked eye! 

[Fen Wolf]

I love how we were all connected at the same time looking at starlink despite being hundreds of miles apart

[ChannelThunder]

 Fen Wolf great shots considering it's your phone!

[Fen Wolf]

 ChannelThunder thank you

 

It really does great pics i use an Iphone 15 pro max as was intended for my YouTube channel originally but i deleted my YouTube channel and now use it everyday for aurora pics, comets, stars etc.  It takes brilliant pics on night mode

[Iceaxecrampon]

The Lancashire skies once again conveyed abject disappointment. 

Halleys back in 2061. I’ll be 99. Doubt I’ll stop up. 

[Weather-history]

Saw the comet but talk of it being "the comet of the century"  is BS.

NEOWISE was a better comet than this, better position and it was circumpolar whilst near its peak.

[Methuselah]

I saw two comets in one year, from a very dark Scottish glen, in the 1990s, along with hundreds of aurorae. So searching through all the light pollution hardly gets me excited! 

[James1979]

Saw the square root of fa. Glad I saw hale bopp all those years back. 

[Beverley Lass]

Thanks for all the pictures  
We got a very poor shot of it tonight on our phone camera.
I just couldn't see it with the naked eye or even find it with the binoculars !
Cars passing were a nuisance .. I made the mistake of looking at the headlights 
first off and couldn't see the sky properly for 10 mins after that, lol.
I was amazed to see the star link go over.  I've never seen the train so close together
like that.  
BL   

[Weather-history]

This was the comet of this century so far.Camcorder footage I took during January 2007 of Comet McNaught. Shame it didn’t stay in the skies longer.

 

 

[Iceaxecrampon]

 James1979 Hale Bopp was a belter

[GreyCrag]

I finally managed to get Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) despite contending against the full moon, lights of Manchester, breezy gusts, and orientating myself with the new a7iii. I'm currently limited to just a max focal range of 105mm with the 24-105 f/4 G OSS lens but it's all I needed with just a few tweaks in LR and a bit of cropping, more surprising was just how long it took to find A3 before 9pm and it was only by fortune that I managed to spot it on the LED as it was next to impossible by eyesight.

That's now a total number of 14 comet's in the bag.

[Jamie M]

Managed it on a single frame at 70 mm

[*Stormforce~beka*]

What's start link?

[*Stormforce~beka*]

 James1979 THAT was the best comet!!

[Norrance]

 James1979  Best that I have seen too by a long way.

[James1979]

 Iceaxecrampon was an incredible sight that one, truly remarkable. Same year as mmmmbop too! 

[GreyCrag]

I'm reading that the observed magnitude of A3 Tsuchinshan–ATLAS is now 4.7 and will be fading even more during the weekend, it's no wonder so many had difficulty finding it. On the upside there's C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) which could throw a surprise our way if it survives it's own rendezvous with the Sun and re-emerges out West from Oct 28th.

[*Stormforce~beka*]

 James1979 I'm singing that now ...

[Southern Storm]

At last we have some decent weather but unfortunately it just happens to coincide with a full moon, which is not ideal for photographing the comet. 

I wasn't able to see it with the naked eye tonight unlike Saturday, where it was fairly bright and could be seen through the lingering twilight, I had higher hopes for this comet but as usual the weather has done a number on us all.

Good riddance to 2024 and it's ridiculously boring weather  

Here are a couple of snaps, all in all, not too bad but for all the hype, I would put Neowise well above this one. 

Neowise 

 

 

Edited October 17, 2024 by Southern Storm

[James1979]

 *Stormforce~beka*  sorry!

[Weather-history]

 James1979

Hale-Bopp, what a comet that was.

I got up during early hours of February 1997 to get my first glimpse of that comet. I didn't even need binoculars and it was still over a month to go to perihelion. 

By late March, it was an incredible sight, it was the first  object that became visible after sunset and it had become circumpolar. You could watch it from sunset to sunrise. 

 

 

[Zak M]

Saw it yesterday evening, just about visible with the naked eye despite the full moon and light pollution! I may or may not have underestimated the length of the tail either...

[Beverley Lass]

Hi all, 
Could someone help and advise me on what causes the 
faint white arcs across this photo please ?
Perhaps best by private message.
As I said above, we were thrilled to capture the comet at all , as
we couldn't see it with our eyes.
Taken on a Samsung S10.
Thanks.
BL  

 

 

Edited October 18, 2024 by Beverley Lass