Duck, you suckers! - Comet C2023/A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS (Timothy Martin)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Ophiuchus (Oph) · Contains: Solar system body or event

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Duck, you suckers! - Comet C2023/A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS

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Duck, you suckers! - Comet C2023/A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS

I hate this comet. I really, really do. I'm so sick of seeing it everywhere. If ever there was a comet I wanted Jupiter to break up and suck into its gravitational maw, this one is it. And I had determined not to shoot it at all. But my wife of 40 years really wanted to see it. And despite our best efforts to find it in the sky in our North Dallas light dome, we failed. So for her, I waited until it was high enough in the New Mexico sky to shoot after dark from the observatory. You guys are the victims of my unwavering love for someone who has put up with my astronomical obsession lo these many years. I hope you're all happy now.

(The title quotes the late, great James Coburn from A Fistful of Dynamite--my favorite spaghetti western. It seems appropriate since my quest to avoid this demon object blew up in my face)

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RA (center)	17h06m33s.51
RA (top/left)	16h54m47s.74
RA (top/right)	17h15m06s.27
RA (bottom/right)	17h18m21s.22
RA (bottom/left)	16h57m58s.78

Dec (center)	+03°23′00″.7
Dec (top/left)	+02°17′58″.6
Dec (top/right)	+01°05′42″.10
Dec (bottom/right)	+04°27′44″.3
Dec (bottom/left)	+05°40′20″.4

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