Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS: new images – 30 Oct. 2024
We release new images of comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS while it leaves the inner Solar System.
C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS: 30 Oct. 2024.
The image above comes from the sigma-clipping combination of 6, 120-second exposures, remotely taken with the ARTEC250+Paramount ME+C3Pro61000EC robotic unit available as part of the Virtual Telescope Project facility in Manciano, Italy, under the darkest skies of the Italian peninsula, with good weather conditions.
The ion tail is visibile with its “filaments” against the dusty one, which dominated for most of the apparition of this comet.
In addition, our largest telescope, the “Elena” (PlaneWave 17″ + Paramount MEII + SBIG STL-6303E) robotic unit, concentrated on the brightest region, capturing the ion tail structures leaving the central region, as well as the subtle structure of region around the nucleus.
C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, inner ion tail: 30 Oct. 2024.
We will continue monitoring this comet, despite the weather is not cooperating at all.
For the record: this is the 2000th post published on this website, since we opened it on Aug. 2012.
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