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Over the last week I've been going out every couple of nights and shooting C/2024 G3 Atlas as it slowly disintegrates after the front fell off.

Here are a couple more of my Dwarf3 shots, along with one from my phone. One is very heavily processed to bring out the side-tails.

20-50 frames of 15s at 80.

Went comet chasing last night, got some great technically good shots. And this one. Which I love.

Taken when the comet was less than one degree above the horizon, as it dived into the sea.

A little cloud just rounds things out.

25*15s@80, Dwarf3, post in Snapseed and Google Photos.

El cometa C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) visto desde Las Grutas, Argentina, por Denis Martínez. Nikon D90, 10", f/4.0, ISO 640. spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv

Pasó por perihelio hace diez días, muy cerca del Sol: a solo 0.093 UA (la Tierra está a 1 UA). Llegó a ser visible durante el día, con prismáticos, con magnitud -3.5. Parecía que había sobrevivido pero finalmente el núcleo se ha deshecho: lo que queda es un cometa zombi. La espectacular cola es observable desde el Hemisferio Sur.

From a dark site with a flat horizon and a proper camera, comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is a stunner at the moment!

Easily visible with the naked eye, with the tail visually extending for about 10 degrees.

With a 30 second exposure at 70 mm f/8, the tail is maginficent! This is just a single snap. Yes, there are also *fifteen* 🤬 starlinks in this single photo. A new record for me 😡

Last night we went down to Scarborough Beach, and hunted for C/2024 G3 Atlas - the current brightest comet.

It was still to close to the sun to see in the glare, but a bit after sunset my Dwarf3 had just enough dark to calibrate, and picked it up just 1 degree above the horizon!

The telescope had just enough time to snap 10 frames and stack them.