Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter and experienced stargazer who covers the night sky, astro-tourism, the northern lights and space exploration. He received the 2023 Popular Media Award from the American Astronomical Society's Solar Physics Division and is the author of A Stargazing Program for Beginners. Writing for Forbes.
Jeff Overs/BBC News & Current Affairs via Getty Images)— destined to become the brightest comet of 2024 and one that may become very bright in mid-October — you likely have a question: how best to photograph it?— when it passes within 58.6 million kilometers of the sun — comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan–ATLAS is now visible to observers in the Northern Hemisphere.
The best tactic is to image it as soon as you can, trying for it from Sept. 27 before sunrise and then from Oct. 12 after sunset.VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesAs luck would have it, a crescent moon will hang close to Comet A3 on these mornings, which should make for great images: when comet A3 will be to the lower-right of a 5%-lit waning crescent moon.
Focusing on Comet A3 is tricky since it’s a fuzzy blob, but unless you get a tack-sharp image, the stars in the background will be blurred, and your image will look amateurish. Here are four ways to do that: Focusing on a star. Using the moon is another. Using live view on your camera, pan across to the star/the moon, get it tightly focused, and then pan back to the comet.
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