Comet Lemmon

I haven't had the Seestar out this year. Let's face it, once you get images of a few familiar galaxies and nebulas, there's not much else it can do. So it sits in its case waiting for something new to come along, such as a comet. It was cloudy on the horizon this evening and it took a while for conditions to be good enough to get this of Comet C2025 A6 Lemmon. I know it is not sharp. It says four minutes of exposure time, but there were lots of rejected frames due to the hazy clouds and there may be some trailing, not of the stars but of the comet head. I noticed this last year in October on C2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS as the Seestar appears to track the stars rather than the comet. It is supposed to be clear tomorrow at dusk so I will see if I can get something better, in which case this post will disappear as if it never existed.

Since the sky in that direction was somewhat cloudy, I turned back to get an image of a familiar galaxy, Andromeda. Once again, conditions were not ideal and I have better ones from last year.

Yesterday I didn't get the Seestar out in time for the comet, but the TV anchor made a passing remark about the Northern Lights, so I set the 6D out with the wide angle lens. Basically, I got star trails. There were a couple images in the middle of the night that showed a hint of the aurora way off to the north, but not worth posting. So here are the star trails from last night. I'm not going to do anything else with this image so didn't try to edit out the satellite and airplane trails. Eight hours, 930 thirty-second exposures.