What 3I/Atlas Looks Like In My Largest Telescope
Imaging an interstellar comet from my backyard – what could go wrong? In this video I go after 3I/Atlas, only the third confirmed interstellar object ever found after ʻOumuamua and...
The Space Koala Astrophotography by Luca Bartek
6:39 thank me later
click bait she NEVER shows anything.
Try watching till I show the photo. Hope this helps 😊
I’m interested in the mount. Any insight on it’s performance and accuracy specially at this focal length
How come it looks one color when other images and telescopes shows many different colors constantly changing?
Ray's Photography is the real deal.
F a k e news I checked it
You may be interested to know that I took a 3 min video of what appears to be a comet passing by Sirius on 30.12.2025. 10.59pm using a Seestar s50 smart telescope.
Awesome! I ended up imaging 3I atlas with the new Seestar s30 pro 😊. Do you know which comet you imaged?
@the_space_koala Thanks for your comment. I'm afraid I don't know what comet it is, and after asking on Google, it appears there is not supposed to be a comet in the area of Sirius. I would also like to image 31 Atlas, well done.
Grüße aus Berlin
Blah, blah, blah and nothing more
Nc view 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Looks to me that you've already decided what it is long before pointing the telescope on it. And you're probably right. Still, I'm glad we have people who entertain that possibility in a more serious way.
Gah shes to pretty to focus on the raw data ... dang it ! Thank you miss for all your efforts but Moving back to Uncle Rays Astronomy !
wow nice work very good explication
Great video as always! By the way, the footage shown at minute 2:43 is actually from the Sutherland Observatory in South Africa but none of the shots show the ATLAS dome. I worked there for 36 years as a technician and actually built the ATLAS dome and installed the telescope during Covid when people could not fly out - see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2nB46hUuMk&list=PLPlqZfVlYnC5lLeWvwnOL7CooGSW3vG5M
thanks so much for the correction!
Amazing good work, congratulation
more things could possibly bother you
i thought the solar wind blew materials away from the sun, not toward it; please explain 15:06
the "regular" ion tail that comets have is created by solar wind blowing away from the Sun. Comets also have a dust tail, which is small particles of dust they are physically leaving behind where they pass. If the comet is after perihelion - meaning it is moving away from the Sun - this tail behind the comet will be pointing at the Sun as a result. This is what we refer to as an anti-tail
"I am planning to image Comet 3I/Atlas from a heavy light-polluted area (Bortle 8-9) using my Celestron C8 EdgeHD. Considering the extreme light pollution, I am leaning towards using the Hyperstar (f/1.9) instead of the 0.7x Reducer (f/7). I’ll be using a ZWO ASI2600MC Pro. I am aware that the comet will appear much smaller at 400mm compared to the 1400mm focal length of the reducer, but I believe the f/1.9 speed might offer a significant advantage in cutting through the light pollution and capturing the dim tail without motion blur. What would you recommend for such a dim and distant target under these urban skies? Is the speed of the Hyperstar worth the loss in image scale?"
putting a reducer on a scope doesn't change the amount of light you gather, so rescaling to the same size you won't have any advantage or disadvantage. The hyperstar offers a benefit only if you're interested in imaging a larger portion of the sky vs. the native field of view. so it actually doesn't matter if you use it or not as long as you're planning to crop to the same area of the sky
Imagine if we could time a probe to land on one of these interstellar objects and go along for the ride 😮
Ciao, complimenti per il lavoro che ai fatto ❤