Photographing Comet Leonard – 20 December 2021

It was a  clear evening, the first for a while, and I was keen to see if I could spot and photograph Comet C/2021 A1 Leonard. It would have been nice to be out of Sydney and have some dark skies, but I did not have time for this. To get a clear view of the western horizon, I went to above the cutting at Dulwich Hill Station.

I soon spotted the comet using binoculars. I could not spot it just with naked eyes. It was perhaps easiest to see using the camera mounted on a tripod.

I took a number of photos, and the one below is a crop of the one above (which was also heavily cropped).

Photographic details – 135 mm, f 1.8, 0.8 sec, 800 ISO.

I was later able to get some better photos from much darker skies in Tasmania.

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