Yet More Comet A3 Images

With the hazy skies we’re having it’s a little tougher to see the comet with the naked eye, but it’s still there once you know where to look.

Finding it with a camera or binoculars however is a piece of cake starting about an hour after sundown.

These first two pictures are from my tripod-mounted iPhone 13.

Bringing out the big guns, the view from my Canon Rebel Xt with the 70mm zoom lens is amazing.

If I went out to a dark sky location the tail would be much more pronounced against a black sky, instead of being washed out by the low-contrast haze and light pollution of the LA metro area. (That red horizontal line is a jet headed toward LAX.)

(Yet another jet just before the comet set.) One thing I worked on tonight was getting the focus done correctly with the big lens, and I think that I did a lot better.