The snowball cometh

I kept hearing that the comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas (C/2023 A3) was visible in our night sky, but I was rather sceptical considering the amount of light pollution in my neighbourhood. However, I didn’t want to take any chances, so last week, on Thursday night, about an hour after sunset (19:56), my wife and I went to the park and turn our gazes toward the west… and saw absolutely nothing (besides a few faint stars)! Remembering that the pictures I took of the aurora borealis with my iPhone had shown much more details than our eyes could see, I took a few pictures of the western landscape, just in case. Amazingly, we can distinguish on the pictures the faint trace of the comet. 

Comète Tsuchinshan-Atlas (C/2023 A3) 2024/10/17 19:56

Comète Tsuchinshan-Atlas (C/2023 A3) 2024/10/17 19:56

Comète Tsuchinshan-Atlas (C/2023 A3) 2024/10/17 19:56

Light pollution, you say? / Pollution lumineuse, vous dites?

[ iPhone 15 Pro, Parc Frédéric-Back, 2024/10/17 19:56 ]