Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) 

Written by Gary on January 30th, 2025

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) has graced the evening skies of those of us who live in the Southern Hemisphere and is provided a lovely show just visible to the naked eye – if you know where to look about 1 – 1.5hrs after sunset in late January 2025.

The comet will not be returning for another 160,000 years so this was a great opportunity to get out into a rural dark area and get some photos with either a smartphone hand held, or a camera on a tripod with relatively short exposures of 3-5 seconds and a 85-135mm focal length range lens.

comet G3

Taken on 24th Jan 2025 as a stack of 10 images of various exposure and ISO values using a Sony A7RIV camera with Sony 135mm f/1.8 lens at f/1.8. Post-processed in Affinity Photo to perform the stacking, then in OnOnePhotoRaw to adjust contrast, etc.

 

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