Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Crater (Crt)  ·  Contains:  Solar system body or event
Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
A Morning Autumn Comet C/2020 S3 Erasmus, Dan Bartlett
Powered byPixInsight

A Morning Autumn Comet C/2020 S3 Erasmus

Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
A Morning Autumn Comet C/2020 S3 Erasmus, Dan Bartlett
Powered byPixInsight

A Morning Autumn Comet C/2020 S3 Erasmus

Equipment

Loading...

Acquisition details

Loading...

Description

After grabbing Comets 156P Russell-LINEAR, 398P Boattini and Comet C/2020 M3 ATLAS I used the last hour of imaging before morning twilight to take 47 x 60 second images of Comet Erasmus.

This one is getting more and more difficult as it races to the other side of the sun, inside the orbit of Mercury with a December 12 Perihelion date.

Will it become spectacular? Most likely not since it will be playing hide and seek with the sun, hiding until all of its potential glory has been spent.

Comments

Sky plot

Sky plot

Histogram

A Morning Autumn Comet C/2020 S3 Erasmus, Dan Bartlett