Comet Leonard Together with Messier 3
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Added December 3, 2021...


Comet Leonard & the globular cluster Messier 3, 2021
This is a composite of 30 x 2-minute exposures. Here you can see comet Leonard passing the beautiful cluster that contains a bit more than 500,000 stars and is about 33,900 light-years away. The age of the majority of stars is roughly 8 billion years old, as compared to 4.6 billion years of our sun. The comet is only about 40,000,000 miles from earth and is moving at a velocity of 37.6 miles/sec or 99,500 mph

You can see more by watching my videos of comet Leonard:



... Additional Images from Earlier Sessions:


December 1, 2021...

November 27, 2021...


Equipment:
Telescope: Orion EON 130mm Triplet Refractor
Focal length: 910mm
Focal ratio: f/7
Camera: ZWO ASI 071 mc Pro
Filter: Baader UV/IR cut
Subframes: 120 sec each
Camera Gain ... sensor temp: 139 ... -10°C
Mount: SkyWatcher EQ6-R Pro
Capture Software: N.I.N.A. Beta 2.006 nightly build
Guiding: PHD2
Stacking: Deep SkyStacker
Post-processing: PixInsight, Photoshop CC, and TOPAZ DeNoiseAI



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