19:38 Horsham, Sussex. The comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS (also called C/2023 A3 and Comet A3) is also visible in the west, best seen with binoculars. Also seen by chance a train of 20+ Starlink satellites.
My shot of the Harvest moon on Wednesday, October 16th from Connecticut, USA. I used a Sony RX10 III camera.
iPhone cameras are great and improving all the time, but nothing can beat a decent Digital SLR with a telephoto for certain shots. I use it at my granddaughter's recital each year while 98% of the rest of the photographers are pinching to zoom with their smartphones. Nature photography is best with the Digital SLR particularly distance bird/animal shots in motion. On the other hand, they are large and clunky to carry around.
Did you manage to catch any shots of the Taurid meteors? I need to check all my images, but I don't think there was much activity in my bit of the sky last night... The brightest object near the top is Jupiter.
Can’t say I did Steve, sorry, and I admit to not knowing about that. I just happened to be up early doors letting the dog out, looked up and saw what an incredibly clear sky it was, stars better than I’d ever seen. All I had to hand was my trusty iPhone again (which also makes it look lighter than it actually was). This is the only one I took that stayed as dark as the sky at the time, the trade off being most of the stars have now vanished, at least from the image.
Another one of my star-trail composite photos. The thick bright line entering top right, exiting the picture at top, and then re-entering, is Jupiter. The second thick line 'chasing' Jupiter is Mars... There was a program on the BBC this week which suggested that the Star of Bethlehem was possibly the combined light (alignment) of Jupiter & Mars. This image gives an idea how large and bright it would have looked (...even better in the nice dark desert sky). The blue & red dotted lines are mostly airplanes coming in over the south coast (top of image) and heading 'home' to Heathrow for the night. The tree on the left is a blue/green colour thanks to the coloured LED sky-light from my neighbours TV room.
430,000 mph Explains about the Lights Nasa's Parker Solar Probe attempts closest ever approach to Sun
Michael Woodman is on stand-by, waiting to see an event he first witnessed 80 years ago. If successful, he could hold a 'twice in a lifetime' record for long after his death! No one really knows if T Cor Bor will flare again, but I think cloudy local skies over the next few nights may be a problem. T Cor Bor: Astronomers await dazzling celestial show