Hello All
I hope you are all well. Apropos the TOAST article on C/2019 Y4 (Atlas), attached is a picture I took last night. Check the animation at the link provided. If it brightens and develops a nice(r) tail, I may capture some colour later in the spring.
Best wishes
Roberto
Link to animation: https://www.astrobin.com/full/t54o5w/C/?nc=user (https://www.astrobin.com/full/t54o5w/C/?nc=user)
(https://cdn.astrobin.com/thumbs/oXc3lgdUS3Eg_1824x0_lPjQIOqV.jpg)
Quote from: Roberto
Hello All
I hope you are all well. Apropos the TOAST article on C/2019 Y4 (Atlas), attached is a picture I took last night. Check the animation at the link provided. If it brightens and develops a nice(r) tail, I may capture some colour later in the spring.
Best wishes
Roberto
Wow - it is definitely developing a tail. I love the animation.
Mark
Really good work Roberto.
Carole
Nice animation Roberto
What a lot of satellites!
Noel
Thank you Carole, Mark, Noel. Thank you for the moderators to moving it to a separate thread; should have started it so.
Yes Noel, plenty of satellites and this was overhead and not even the dreaded Starlinks!
Roberto
Really nice Roberto ~ let's hope that it does develop as hoped!
Hugh
Anyone else been imaging this one? Seems it's a more than averagely interesting target:
ATLAS flubbed: Comet heading our way takes one look at Earth, self-destructs into house-sized chunks
Stargazers hoping to glimpse a comet close to Earth next month are in for a disappointment: it fell apart en route.
The comet C/2019 Y4, commonly referred to as ATLAS after its discovery by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System in Hawaii, broke off into as many as 30 shards – each one the size of a house – judging from images snapped by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
More: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/29/atlas_comet_shards/