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very  cool I am hoping to catch a glimpse of it as well. I already have my telescope loaded in my vehicle but its still too bright out where I am at

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I’m glad I moved away from light pollution. I have a much better view to the N and NW but was clouded out of several events of the last 6 months (eclipse, both times the northern lights were super active, one meteor shower peak)

The iphone takes surprisingly good sky pictures; that was 2 or 3 seconds. I wonder if it’s stacking short exposures to compensate for camera movement.

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Glad you had better luck than I did. My area had cloud cover over the weekend I was hopeful doing the evening when it looked like be clearing up..

Unfortunately by the time it got dark enough had roughly 75  percent overcast with high enough winds I couldn't keep my  10 " Skywatcher Dobsonian telescope stable enough the brief time I caught a glimpse.

Hopefully I can catch it another night lol

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Yesterday was my (last) chance:

Wide angle, contrast enhanced:

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Standard, contrast enhanced and cropped:

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Luckily enough the plane did not collide with the comet.

And what it was like when I arrived at the high place (cropped to fake a panorama picture ;)):

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Close to the antenna a bit on the left you can see Venus. The mountain is the Pilatus in Canton Lucerne, Switzerland.

Camera a Sony alpha, exposure time 30 second ISO 800.

PS Height 1020 m.

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