Saturday, October 26, 2024

Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan Atlas October 25

A combination of clear and cloudy skies. I did set up my Star Adventurer 2i with Nikon D7500 but Snap connection failed again. I really need to solve this .. maybe getting a complete new snap connector. 
Next to this I set up my EQAZ6 with TLAPO80/480 and ASI2600. Polar allignement was "excellent" and I used sharpcap to capture images. Increasing the exposure time resulted in an error. Switching over to N.I.N.A. wasn't successful either. Finally, I switched over to ASIStudio and found out that ASI2600 power was disconnected. I could fix this but in the meantime the Comet was about 5° above the horizon. 

Some images shot are posted below; I'm still seeing the a faint anti-tail, the huge dusttail but no plasmatail. I made some images using my OIII filter; no more details vissible.