Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Leo (Leo)  ·  Contains:  Solar system body or event
Meet Cute: Luna and the Comet, Jeremy Likness
Meet Cute: Luna and the Comet
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Meet Cute: Luna and the Comet

Meet Cute: Luna and the Comet, Jeremy Likness
Meet Cute: Luna and the Comet
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Meet Cute: Luna and the Comet

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After four days of waking up and trying to photograph the comet, I was about to give up. Then, scrolling through my camera roll, I noticed a faint point of light around where the comet should be - so faint, I had missed it several times before. Knowing my target, I identified a set of 5 exposures that contained it. They were all 1/6s exposures and on a tripod, so used PixelMath to take the maximum from each. I then cloned the image, hit it with 4th degree automatic background extraction and sharpened it using the bias in Multilinear Transformations until I had a clear, high contrast image with the comet and moon. I stretched this, then used PixelMath and CloneStamp to remove everything (set it to 0) except the moon and comet "signature." I then went to the original and use this mask to sharpen and lighten the targets. This is C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan ATLAS) and the 1.2% moon.

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