Comet Leonard, M3 while a Meteor Streaks Across the Sky

In this image taken on the early morning of Dec. 3, 2021, at Grand Mesa Observatory, Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard) is seen moving past Globular Cluster M3 in our night sky when a meteor streaked across this scene, lighting up the image and creating one of the most spectacular shots we have had the privilege of working with. It was captured and processed by Terry Hancock and Tom Masterson using a QHY367 Pro C one shot color CMOS and a Takahashi E180 Astrograph, GMO’s System 4a telescope grandmesaobservatory.com/equipment
After processing this image, I looked up what the color of the meteor means for its makeup and found that yellow/orange meteors most likely are made up of sulfur and iron. The strands of vapor moving off the meteor tail are so mesmerizing. What a treat it was to capture this image! Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard) will continue to brighten in our night sky this month but will become difficult to image or observe as it approaches the sun in our sky. It flips around and becomes an evening comet later this month, which will hopefully make it easier for more people to observe. Fingers crossed it brightens past expectations. Currently it’s a binocular-observable comet, but it may become naked eye visible in the next couple nights if it’s not already.

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Technical Info:
Captured and processed by Tom Masterson and Terry Hancock
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado www.grandmesaobservatory.com
Date/Time of Capture: 4:31 AM MT, December 3rd
Single 120 second combined with 40% mix for noise reduction from a 90 x 120 second stack
Camera: QHY367 Pro C Full Frame One Shot Color CMOS
Optics: Takahashi E-180 Astrograph
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6
Pre-Processed in Pixinsight
Post Processed in Photoshop

Taken on: December 4, 2021

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