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Community photo entitled "Ghost Comet" C/2024 G3 ATLAS - from Sydney, Australia by Marco Nero on 01/22/2025 at Sydney Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia

"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.