Comet Leonard and the moon, 2nd December 2021

[lukebl]

I got up early to capture comet C/2021 A1 Leonard this morning with a Canon 6d and 200mm f/5 Newtonian.

Unfortunately Deep Sky Stacker just wouldn't co-operate and didn't produce a useable stacked image. However, a single image wasn't too bad. So this is a single 2 minute exposure at ISO 800.

Glancing over to the eastern horizon I saw the rising thin crescent moon and captured this image of the earthshine. 3 second exposure. Same setup. The star upper left of the moon is 7th magnitude HD128986.

[maw lod qan]

Very nice!

The moon looked amazing yesterday with Earthshine also.

[Alan White]

Bet that was chilly this morning.

Nice image, like that it is a single exposure as well.

 

[happy-kat]

Lovely comet. SIRIL will stack comet images.

[Dinglem]

@lukebl very nice images, i was up early this morning going off to work and saw the moon and thought it would make a good picture with the earthshine 👍

[petevasey]

Lovely comet shot, Luke (and nice Moon of course).  But nothing on this group from early Friday morning with the comet next to M3.  Although ready for it I was clouded out - Sod's Law in spades.  But I believe there are images on the Net from other countries.  Such is life 😔

Cheers,

Peter

[scotty1]

Lovely shots 

I was out Thursday am also, but became so cold I couldn't focus my lens as I was shaking. Saw a few nice meteors and a couple of flashes of lightning in the distance.  The windchill was nasty, and it made my zoom lens shake enough to distort the stars. Not very relaxing 🥶