Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS

Scarborough Bluffs, Ontario Oct 16 2024

This week, comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS was visible in the northern hemisphere. This once in a lifetime event happens only once every 80,000 years, so of course I had to try to photograph it. Unfortunately, it has been cloudy here lately, and the visibility of the comet fades each day this week, but I did manage to see it. I had serious problems with the light pollution from the bright city lights from the greater Toronto metropolis, and the rising October "Hunter's Super moon", but I managed to get a glimpse of it from the park at Scarborough Bluffs, right beside Lake Ontario.

The comet was hard to spot at first, and this grainy image was the best I could get given all the light pollution from the Toronto city lights and the bright moon.	As I was approaching my photo spot, the moon was rising. It just so happened to be the Hunter's Super moon tonight, and it lined up perfectly with some Canada geese that were floating on Lake Ontario.	The Hiunter's Super moon, rising through the "Belt Of Venus", or Earthshadow. This is looking east just after sunset. The ship on the horizon was the Canadian Coast Guard research vessel, The Limnos

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