C/2021 A1 (Leonard) 2021-Dec-16-19 Eliot Herman

Eliot Herman
Comet Leonard outbursts
Comet Leonard is actively changing every day. As the comet appeared in the dusk sky on December 16 it manifested an outburst to mag 3, it then faded to mag 5 by December 18th and then it brightened again to mag 3 on December 19th. The current brighter Comet Leonard is complicated by forward scattering as well as an outburst. See CometOBServation database for discussion (cobs.si/show?id=679).

These comet photos were captured using a Vixen VSD 100 astrograph and a Nikon Z7II camera. each image is a stack of 35 4 sec images.

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