Mastodawn

OM Digital OM-1 with 75 mm Olympus lens at f/1.8, 1.3 second exposure, ISO 200, cropped, processed in Darktable.

That's a light over the Monash freeway down the bottom, so you can imagine what the light pollution is like. It's actually a pretty bright comet.

@futzle what was the time (approx) when you took that?

@cafuego 21.20 to 21.45 Melbourne time. Before that, too bright. After that, behind that tree.

@futzle Cheers. Am pondering if I should wander down to the river tonight and have a go off of it from the bridge here.

@futzle with mah full frame nikon and prime lens *cough*

@cafuego Tail was about 2.5° long last night. Hope it’s like a 500 mm prime…

@futzle 35! It’ll be great! ;-)

Nah I’m taking the 70-200 non-prime. I’d be shooting over city buildings so seeing it at all would be a win.

@futzle thr important thing is to show the northern hemisphere how they’re missing out again.

@cafuego Capital.

Quite a bit of detail in that #comet image I took a few rights ago 👆 I was able to extract with Siril. #CometC2024G3 #C2024G3 #Astrophotography

@futzle oh that is lovely!