Comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS, also known as the Great Comet of 2024 and formally designated as C/2023 A3, is a non-periodic comet from the Oort cloud discovered by the Purple Mountain Observatory in China on 9 January 2023 and independently found by ATLAS South Africa on 22 February 2023.
Comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS, also known as the Great Comet of 2024 and formally designated as C/2023 A3, is a non-periodic comet from the Oort cloud discovered by the Purple Mountain Observatory in China on 9 January 2023 and independently found by ATLAS South Africa on 22 February 2023. The comet passed perihelion at a distance of 0.39 AU on 27 September 2024, when it became visible to the naked eye. Tsuchinshan–ATLAS peaked at its brightest magnitude on 9 October, shortly after passing the Sun, with an apparent magnitude of −4.9 per reported observations at the Comet Observation Database (COBS), making it the brightest comet observed in the Northern Hemisphere since Comet Hale–Bopp in 1997.
[Source: Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Tsuchinshan%E2%80%93ATLAS]
Comet-C2023-A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS taken from the Swiss Air Memorial on Friday October, 18th, 2024. Nikon D600 on a fixed tripod.
| Exposure | 116@4 sec (7.73 min) | ||||||
| ISO | 3200 | ||||||
| Camera | Nikon Z7 [8856 x 5504] | ||||||
| Optics | Nikor 400 mm lens at 100 mm focal length | ||||||
| Filter | None | ||||||
| Guiding | None | ||||||
| Controller | Images taken using Nikon internal intervalometer | ||||||
| Location | Swiss Air Flight 111 Memorial, Nova Scotia. | ||||||
| Date | 2024-10-18 | ||||||
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