Comets present photographers with countless prospects. They’re dynamic close-up topics: able to shifting their kind from evening to nighttime, sprouting nebulous comae, and even present process outbursts. Comets are additionally itinerant photobombers, usually crossing paths with acquainted deep-sky objects as they glide elliptically in opposition to the celestial sphere. And when nice comets graze the Solar and unleash their tails throughout your entire sky, they make for spectacular wide-field vistas.
The place as soon as these landscapes have been captured solely in sketches and work, the regular march of know-how has enabled astroimagers to file them in more and more gorgeous images. The photographs right here seize a few of the nice (and almost nice) comets of the previous six a long time.
1. Ikeya-Seki (C/1965 S1)
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