By Hassan Dadashi Arani | 2025-01-22

"Ghost Comet" C/2024 G3 ATLAS - from Sydney, Australia
On 01/22/2025 09:35 pm by Marco Nero| Sydney Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia
This single exposure of just 6 seconds was taken at a lookout platform with nearly 35 other photographers behind me. The appearance of a venomous snake at our feet spooked a few into leaving before sunset - but the experience was magnificent as the "Dead Comet" C/2024 G3 ATLAS put on quite a show. It was clearly visible to the naked eye as a silvery streak in the sky ...and showed up clearly on everyone's camera LCDs as it approached the horizon.
Canon EOS Ra + Canon RF 85mm f/1.2L USM lens. ISO 1600, f/1.6, 6 Seconds.
Minor vignette reduction in Photoshop plus some foreground adjustments to raise shadow details. Quite a LOT of Starlink Satellites needed to be digitally removed.