#pons-brooks

Comet 12P

Potograph taken in Pons-Brooks on the evening of March 16th. The comet is still 151 million miles away and slowly getting closer. The comet is also slowly brightening but also getting lower in the sky after sunset making it more difficult to capture. It will continue to get closer to the Sun over the next few weeks and become more difficult to see.

There was only about 40 mins from the start of darkness after sunset to when the comet set in the northeast. The comet is now magnitude 5, technically making it visible to the naked eye under a very dark sky, but practically speaking you will need binoculars to see it.

Pons-Brooks/Jupiter

Just to follow up on the previous two posts: I was not thrilled with what I could see of Pons-Brooks, but was pleasantly surprised when I spied Jupiter with her four large moons present, though did not notice till I opened images on the laptop later.

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks captured April 4th of this year

135mm Rokinon lens