I finally spotted the comet (C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS)) As seen from south Minneapolis.
Category Archives: Astronomy
Not the December Solstice
That’s tomorrow at 03:27 am.
A better account of a comet
Another clear night saw me trying to capture the comet again. This time with a longer lens. The comet is getting higher in the sky, and today is the closest approach to Earth (so it might be a bit brighter). Still no progress on getting my telescope mount back from the repair place, so I’m …
“An imperfect account of a comet…”
to quote Caroline Herschel. There’s a buzz in the media over the rare green comet that’s whizzing past us right now. It’s fuelled in part by the colour (almost certainly not visible to the eye (especially from light polluted regions)), and in part by spectacular images from big telescopes. I like comets, and try to …
Capturing the partial solar eclipse of June 2021
I live in the UK and I’m an amateur astronomer, I’m very familiar with the vagaries of the weather and how a run of seemingly perfect days (nights) before an astronomical event will come to a crashing halt with a sky of clouds scant hours before the event starts. With this in mind, and after …
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