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Skywatchers have been treated to a special visitor this month, as the 'horned' comet 12P/Pons-Brooks streaks across the night sky.
"The comet was a rather challenging capture; not really visualising the extent of light pollution visible from my homelands of the Mendip Hills. With this, I had to trial and error a series of compositions until I was satisfied with the one I eventually photographed," Dury told Space.com. "Even with more integration time, it was possible to observe details in the comet's nucleus and ion tail that had been distorted by solar winds," Dury continued.
Not only did Fathi capture the 'horned' comet and Andromeda in the same image but also what appears to be a meteor streaking across the star-studded sky! Great work Fathi!Kaitlin Moore captured this great image of comet 12P/Pons-Brooks above Lake Mendota, Wisconsin, U.S. "I drove west away from Phoenix on the Carefree Highway towards the darker skies outside Wickenburg, Arizona to the west where Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks is visible, low in the sky, now between the Andromeda Galaxy and the Triangulum Galaxy ," O'Donnell told Space.com.
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