Here are the Moon and Saturn as seen about 7:30 this evening. They are even closer now, around 8:30. The Moon is so much brighter though Saturn is hard to see without binoculars. I had to take two exposures and merge them. This was show with a 300mm zoom and my Canon T8i camera.
In case you’ve visited my site and wondered where I’ve been, the day after I posted the picture of the comet I was in a car accident that among other things, broke my leg.
I was taking most of my family back to the soccer fields to see the comet when someone t-boned us at full speed. That totaled both cars and sent my daughter and me to the ER. I got a fractured fibula out of it and will wear a walking boot into January.
That said, I might try some light duty photography tomorrow.
Here’s my latest image of Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas, taken Monday evening around 7:30 PM from the soccer fields on Highway 300, Little Rock. This comet is incredible, even under the waxing gibbous Moon and lingering twilight it stretched from the crook of my thumb to the end of my index finger at arm’s length. Go see it.
This image was made from 78 one second shots at ISO 3200, f/6.3 and 189mm focal length. Stacked and processed.
