Comet C/2023 A3 this evening

[Nutmeg47]

At its closest point to earth and visible in the western sky around 45 minutes after UK sunset at roughly the same elevation as Venus.

Extract from today's Guardian.

[Ian]

I really, really, hope to see it, but the weather isn't looking very helpful - let's see!

Ian

[wornish]

I had a look last night, but clouds were positioned exactly in front of where it would be. The rest of the sky was clear!

[Ian]

Anyone else here had a go?

It's actually sunny this evening though the forecast was for cloud. I'm going out shortly to the spot I scouted the other day which has a good long distance horizon view.

Fingers crossed...

Ian

[Ian]

Somewhere in this direction! 😂 (Phone shot)

[Ian]

Venus is twinkling away but no comet so far ..

[Nutmeg47]

Big black cloud materialised in the wrong spot last night, and 8/8 oktas tonight. There's always tomorrow....

Note : it seems the best pics were captured around 7.30pm UK time yesterday

[Ian]

I got it! Several shots of varying quality - the big issue for me was that it wasn't visible with the naked eye - I whacked the exposure right up and there it was, and it had been there all the time. I stupidly didn't bring a tripod, so had to jerry rig the camera on some cloth bas that were in the car and use the self timer to ensure the came was settled.

I'll post shots in a new thread shortly.

Ian