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Roland Kueng
Wolfhausen, Switzerland
06/12/2020
12:10 pm

Equipment Details:

Nikon D7500, 180 mm/ f=3.5 Tele-lens. Mounted on Tripod with Star adventurer Tracker . Manual adjustments.
Exposure time 180 s, ISO 800.

Post-processing Details:

Overlay manually of 2 photos taken at 00.10 on 12.6.2020 and 13.6.2020 such that one can see the advance of Comet C/2017 T2 within 24 hours. Some small adjustments and filtering in Photoshop.

Image Details:

It shows Comet C/2017 T2 in the constellation of Ursa Major. The comet is wandering from right to left within the .
Due to ever increasing artifical lights it is hard to get the comets tail with more contrast.

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