"Today's picture is definitely one of the most interesting shots I’ve taken recently — a real highlight among my photos .
On the night of 19/11/25, I pointed my telescope toward 3I/ATLAS — a comet that doesn’t belong to our Solar System. It’s an object that arrived from interstellar space, passing by us only briefly before disappearing back into the darkness of the Galaxy .
It looks impressive in the photo, but capturing it required a good amount of luck (chasing clear skies ) and patience — it was only reasonably visible right before the end of astronomical night . The image shows two distinct tails: a longer gas tail and a shorter dust tail, pointing in opposite directions .
An extra bonus was that another visitor slipped into the frame — the asteroid 247 Eukrate . This object has nothing to do with interstellar travel; it follows a regular orbit in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and appears as a calm, predictable dot in the sky .
Two completely different objects in a single image — moments like this remind me why it’s worth getting up at night to chase various cosmic targets .
From PC, open it in full screen.
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From Łukasz Remkowicz:
"Today's picture is definitely one of the most interesting shots I’ve taken recently — a real highlight among my photos .
On the night of 19/11/25, I pointed my telescope toward 3I/ATLAS — a comet that doesn’t belong to our Solar System. It’s an object that arrived from interstellar space, passing by us only briefly before disappearing back into the darkness of the Galaxy .
It looks impressive in the photo, but capturing it required a good amount of luck (chasing clear skies ) and patience — it was only reasonably visible right before the end of astronomical night . The image shows two distinct tails: a longer gas tail and a shorter dust tail, pointing in opposite directions .
An extra bonus was that another visitor slipped into the frame — the asteroid 247 Eukrate . This object has nothing to do with interstellar travel; it follows a regular orbit in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and appears as a calm, predictable dot in the sky .
Two completely different objects in a single image — moments like this remind me why it’s worth getting up at night to chase various cosmic targets .
Takahashi Epsilon 130d + ASI2600 MC pro
15 x 60s.
ZWO Am5
19.11.2025, 04:30
CATEGORY: STACKED"
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From link above in post body.
So you’re saying that some dude using amateur level equipment took better images than NASA? Come on!
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What’s the distance of both from earth? Great capture !
From internet:
The asteroid:
3.5 Astronomical Units = 525 686 918 kilometers
Comet:
Distance of 3I/ATLAS from Earth is currently 297,575,901.5 kilometers, equivalent to 1.9891720393 Astronomical Units.
Size of field of view please.
Why the tail of atlas goes backwords