Compilation video of Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-Atlas

I made a video of my best images of Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS. Click on the picture below to start the video; video is best seen on your PC

Selfie with Dr Thierry Pauwels - Minor Planets

During the celebration of 50y Aquila I took the opportunity the make a selfie with the Belgian astronomer and >100 minor planet discoverer Dr. Thierry Pauwels.

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. 

Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan Atlas October 22

Clouds dissapeared for a half hour, enough to take some images of comet C/2023 A3 TsushinShan Atlas. The comet still has a anti-tail but under a bigger angle.

Image were taken with Nikon D7500 on my Star Adventurer 2i mount. Total integration time was 340s (17x20s).

Stacking was done using APP and final editing with CS4 en DeNoise AI.

Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-Atlas stacked with APP 2.0.0. beta 29

I reworked my images of the Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan Atlas using the beta 29 version of APP 2.0.0.

 

My picture of Lunar Occultation of Saturn published in Heelal

My picture and article of the Lunar occultation of Saturn are published in the astronomical magazine Heelal.

This is the link to my article on my blog.

Comet A3 Tsuchinshan Atlas Stacked

Stacking of 23 images with APP. The anti-tail is becoming more visible after stacking.