Nice to see you again, vlad! Comet McNaught was indeed spectacular and caused quite a stir in astronomy/astrophotography circles. I wish I could have seen it. In terms of overall brightness it seems comparable to Hale-Bopp in 1997, but McNaught's tail spread much farther across the sky. I'm ...

I would definitely either set focus to infinity or focus manually. Comets are too faint for autofocus. For other settings, just think like any other astrophotography: you want large aperture (low f/#) to gather light, moderate ISO, and the longest shutter speed you can manage before trailing ...

Thanks, Hale Bopp is always going to be my benchmark comet until something brighter comes along but I hope this one can be pretty good too. I didn't have a camera back when Hale Bopp came around but I want to photograph this one. I hope it isn't too difficult and any advice on focal length, focal ...

Wow this is spectacular and also gives me some idea what to look for next year during the total eclipse! Thanks so much, Wat!

It looks otherworldly even before totality!

The most I have ever seen is a 90% partial eclipse and that was many years ago (May 1994) and it was mostly cloudy that day with ...

And how much of a difference would be between day and night Pluto vs the night side of our Moon?

The dayside landscape of Pluto is darker than the Moon's, but you might struggle to tell except with a side-by-side comparison (especially because the Moon's surface is intrinsically so much darker ...

Plugging the current orbital elements into Stellarium, it predicts a magnitude of 0.77 with the comet 23 degrees from the Sun on September 28, 2024, and 0.34 magnitude at 14.5 degrees from the Sun on October 6th. The earlier view will probably be better -- being almost 10 degrees further from the ...

Wow, this actually looks like some of the airless procedural worlds/moons in SE! I guess SE did a pretty good job of indicating its surface brightness? I wonder how the icy regions on Pluto look-- doesn't Pluto have a lot of ice on it-- even entire mountains made of ice? I bet those would look ...

Thanks! I haven't found a comet thread on here, so I'll post this here....do you guys think this comet will be major? I have trouble believing this will be a great comet, because Mag 0 seems a bit dim for great comet status (some of whom have been brighter than the full moon Mag -12 and easily seen ...

Thanks, so video is best? It would show the movement of the lights as they increase and decrease.  I see much of what is captured is not easily visible with the eyes.

Mid did you see these Northern Lights? They are absolutely amazing!

I wonder what camera settings are needed for these?

Here are some Northern Lights images I found, one Southern Lights image and an image of them from Saturn!

https://twitter.com/MAstronomers/status/1630988139106803712
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Are both of these add ons for 0980 and 0990?

Wow how did you get the planet and rings to glow like that, Fellow Alex?  Backlighting?  Is that Saturn?

I envision a new TV series-- Wat the Meteorite Hunter! But seriously, this is a great reason why so many meteorites have been found in Antarctica, it is after all a desert. The famous meteorite that came from Mars was found there as well as some that came from the Moon. Back in the 90s we used to ...

Wow is that a huge ship with cockpit cameras? I love those kinds of ships.

I believe the default controls for this are the comma key for decreasing and the period key for increasing it

pretty sure thats the exposure controls

I just use the exposure control, which is fine and does the same thing. Ambient Lighting/Occlusion whatever doesn't work for me, I turn it on ...