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Comet C2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS time lapse video taken yesterday (Oct 17) from western Singapore with my beloved Redcat Scope. 😊 Credit : Victor Ang 👍🙏🏻

This video of Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinsan-ATLAS moving through clouds was made from multiple shots taken with a 180mm lens on Sunday evening 13th of Oct 2024 at Lower Peirce Reservoir by Victor Ang PS who is a dear friend and a past President of TASOS.. play the clip and you will clearly see the Comet with its tail on the left slowly descending lower into the horizon as Earth rotates.. Posting here to share with everyone.. I hope you all enjoy enjoy it 👍

Sharing 8 October 2024 Solar activity through Coronado SolarMax 40 H-alpha Solar Filter SS attached to Takahashi FS 60CB Telescope fitted with TeleVue 2.5x PowerMate. Single shot with Canon EOS 700D. Credit : Jeffrey Lim, Astro Scientific 👍

I asked Dr Raymond Quek to help test process a sequence of Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-Atlas shot on early Sat morning 28th Sep 2024. A total of 217 images centred on approx 6.17 am was used. A software program was written to then segment and ROI extract the Comet and removed the gradient for stacking using Matlab. For now I post the video showing how Matlab software processed the image data sequence which looks quite interesting to share with everyone. I will try to post the final Comet image result ASAP. I hope you all like it.. thanks 👍🙏🏻

Following our Saturday morning 28th Sep 2024’s capture of Comet C2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-Atlas, a group of us again went Sunday morning 4.15am and 6.30am to attempt again hoping to improve on our results. The group consist of TASOS President Soh Kim Mun, TASOS Hon Secretary Lim Wei Rong, Committee and Co opt members Albert Lim and Gerardyn Brittos and her husband Eric and TASOS member Patricia. We returned to the top level carpark in Toh Guan hoping to again catch the Comet from our Singapore’s urban skies. That was unfortunately not to be as the sky was very cloudy as expected and we did not get to see nor catch the comet. Anyway, the 25 day old Wanning Crescent Moon was hanging beautifully in the Eastern Sky and that was the only consolation. I caught it again with the Seestar S50 and even manage to syn on it the star Alphad while waiting for the Comet to rise above the distant building’s rooftop. Before dawn I tried to get Seestars to target the Comet but it failed because there was thick clouds and haze all along the low horizon and Seestars plate solve failed to goto and identify the target. Anyway, photos from this attempt posted here to share with everyone. I really hope you all like them 👍🙏🏻

Finally success. This Saturday morning 28th Sep 2024, between 4.15am and 6.30am, TASOS President Soh Kim Mun and TASOS members Albert Lim returned to the top level of a carpark in Toh Guan to again attempt to catch the Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-Atlas from our Singapore’s urban skies. The sky was partially cloudy as expected but fortunately it was better then morning before - at the beginning Soh Kim Mun reckons the chances of success maybe 5%? Anyway, the 24 day old Wanning Crescent Moon was hanging in the Eastern Sky I did catch it and Jupiter again in the Seestar S50 while waiting for the Comet to riae above the distant building’s rooftop. Just before dawn, there was still low horizon thin clouds and haze but we were both blessed and manage to catch the Comet from only a few degrees high in the Eastern horizon. I am thankful our efforts were successful. Photos from this attempt posted here to share with everyone. I hope you all like them 👍🙏🏻.

Friday morning today 27th Sep 2024, between 4.15am and 6.30am, TASOS President Soh Kim Mun and TASOS members Albert Lim and Patricia Tang alond with Meng Hwee from Science Centre gathered at the rop level of a carpark in Toh Guan, Singapore to attempt to catch the Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-Atlas. The sky was unfortunately cloudy as expected - even before I left home I already know the chances are well below 1%. It was sp cloudy through out that even the 23 day old Wanning Crescent Moon could not shine through the thick clouds.. I did catch it when it appears on and off through the cloud layers as did Jupiter for a barely a few minutes. By dawn the clouds did not disperse as they expected and given the Comet is barely only a few degrees high in the Eastern horizon there was simply no chance - nevertheless we still tried but it was not successful. Photos from this attempt posted here to share with everyone. I hope you all like them 👍

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Nice timelapse movie of the Crescent Moon sent in to share by Bee Ping. Hope you all like it 👍👍