Tag: Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF)

The Waning Moon’s Crescent Covers Leo’s Heart, Orionids Meteors Multiply, and Autumn Sights to See!

This long exposure image of the Triangulum Galaxy, also known as Messier 33 and NGC 598, was captured by Steve McKinney of Toronto in 2012. His photo covers a thumb’s width of the sky, but it has been rotated by 180 degrees from a binoculars view. Look for the 2.7 million light-years-distant galaxy climbing the…
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A New Comet, Exploring the Fullish Moon’s Western Wastes, the Moon Covers Uranus, Mounting Meteors, and Mars Menaces a Crab!

I took this unprocessed image of Saturn through the 74″ (1.88 metre) diameter telescope at the David Dunlap Observatory in Richmond Hill, Ontario at 9:13 pm EDT on October 3, 2022. Note the bands on the planet, and the dark Cassini Division that separates the outer from the inner rings. The wedge of shadow cast…
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