Saturday, September 15, 2018

Comet 21P Giacobini-Zinner and Messier M35 : astrophotography highlight


An astrophotography highlight this morning : Comet 21P Giacobini-Zinner together with Open Star Cluster Messier M35. The "Green Comet" was passing in front of M35, an open star cluster in the constellation Gemini. The picture below shows also star cluster NGC2158 en IC2157.
The picture was taken with Nikon D7500 on TLAPO80/480 f/6. Editing was done using CS4.


It's interesting to see how "fast" the Green Comet is moving against the stars. Below picture was taken this morning with a time difference of 1hour.