Miguel Claro is knowledgeable photographer, writer and science communicator primarily based in Lisbon, Portugal, who creates spectacular photographs of the night time sky. As a European Southern Observatory Photograph Ambassador and member of The World At Evening and the official astrophotographer of the Darkish Sky Alqueva Reserve, he focuses on astronomical “Skyscapes” that join each Earth and the night time sky.
This close-up picture of comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) was taken from the Darkish Sky Alqueva reserve in Portugal on Oct. 13, 2024 when the comet was displaying a formidable stage of brightness and particulars, in addition to a cool ‘anti-tail.’
On this photograph, it additionally appears that the comet’s ion tail can also be seen alongside its distinguished mud tail. Along with trailing lengthy tails of mud and gases behind them, some comets develop an ion tail, a second tail made up of charged particles pushed away from comets by photo voltaic radiation and photo voltaic wind.
I processed this one with my deep sky methods to get better as a lot of the unique shade and particulars hidden within the mud tail as attainable, that are often washed out, as a result of bluish background gentle from the moon and the solar.
This picture consists of 75 quick exposures of 10 seconds every at ISO1600, shot with a 300mm prime lens at f2.8, comprising round 12 minutes of photographs.
I photographed comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS because the Earth was passing by the comet’s orbital aircraft (the flat disk-like form alongside which a physique orbits the solar). When comets are seen alongside their orbital planes as seen from Earth, it could possibly typically seem as in the event that they sprout an ‘anti-tail,’ a tail that faces in the direction of the solar fairly than away from it, as their different tails do. It is clearly seen as a front-facing ‘spike’ popping out of the comet’s nucleus within the pictures.
The opposite picture of the comet beneath was taken from an attractive subject on the Darkish Sky Alqueva reserve in Portugal. The moonlight was shining vibrant that night time, so it helped to light up the panorama fairly effectively.
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