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Community photo entitled Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS  with anti-tail by Chris Zurita on 10/14/2024 at Vail, AZ, USA

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS with anti-tail

On 10/14/2024 07:11 pm by Chris Zurita| Vail, AZ, USA

Been waiting for this comet for awhile, no way I was catching it in the morning. Shot it yesterday with just a tri-pod, knew I needed to bust out my star tracker that had been sitting all summer in the garage. Through it all together, luckily everything work and I was able to find all my components. Got the perfect alignment right out of the camera, no rotation in post procession. Shot about 21 minutes of exposure time. Very excited I captured the anti-tail and the orientation of it was great.

DIY Star tracker on an equatorial mount. Nikon D3300. 51 frames shot at 100mm f/7.1 25s iso-200, used my MIOPS+ trigger for a shutter release.

Stacked in Sequator, edits in camera raw.