An novice astronomer from southwestern Nova Scotia has captured a blinding time-lapse of the inexperienced comet that is making a uncommon go close to Earth.
The final time the comet was this near our planet was 50,000 years in the past. Many Canadians are trying up on the stars this week because the comet will get prepared to make its closest method on Wednesday.
Tim Doucette with the Deep Sky Eye Observatory close to Yarmouth, N.S., is amongst them.
He took a two-hour time-lapse of the comet in the course of the early-morning hours of Jan. 28.
“If you’ve got a telescope and you look closely at the comet and the background stars, it’s travelling relative in our sky about one-quarter degrees per hour,” he instructed 24CA News’s Mainstreet Halifax. “So within a few minutes you can see that the comet’s actually making motion in the night sky.”
You can take heed to Doucette’s full interview with host Jeff Douglas right here:
Mainstreet NS8:09Astronomer Tim Doucette captures pictures of uncommon inexperienced comet
A uncommon inexperienced comet that orbits our solar as soon as each 50,000 years is now in our neighbourhood, and already an novice astronomer has captured dazzling imagery of it.
Tim Doucette with the Deep Sky Eye Observatory in southwestern Nova Scotia has captured a blinding time-lapse of the inexperienced comet that is making a uncommon go close to Earth.
