{"id":10743,"date":"2024-10-15T12:45:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T16:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=10743"},"modified":"2024-10-15T12:45:14","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T16:45:14","slug":"comet-c-2023-a3-atlas-20241014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2024\/10\/comet-c-2023-a3-atlas-20241014\/","title":{"rendered":"Comet C\/2023 A3 &#8211; atlas 20241014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241014_192247_CanonEOSRebelT7i_3.200s_F4.0_f75.0mm_ISO1600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241014_192247_CanonEOSRebelT7i_3.200s_F4.0_f75.0mm_ISO1600-1023x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"347\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-10744\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241014_192247_CanonEOSRebelT7i_3.200s_F4.0_f75.0mm_ISO1600-1023x682.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241014_192247_CanonEOSRebelT7i_3.200s_F4.0_f75.0mm_ISO1600-299x199.jpg 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241014_192247_CanonEOSRebelT7i_3.200s_F4.0_f75.0mm_ISO1600-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241014_192247_CanonEOSRebelT7i_3.200s_F4.0_f75.0mm_ISO1600-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241014_192247_CanonEOSRebelT7i_3.200s_F4.0_f75.0mm_ISO1600-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241014_192247_CanonEOSRebelT7i_3.200s_F4.0_f75.0mm_ISO1600.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comet C\/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is a long-period comet, with an 80,000-year orbit around the sun.<\/p>\n<p>We were south of Newburgh Monday  night, had the first camera image at 19:12 EDT but did not know it. <\/p>\n<p>This is one of the fun ones, where the plane suddenly altered course to avoid collision with the Comet! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>We did use the contrail to help each other find it visually and in binocs.<\/p>\n<p>75mm f4 zoom, ISO 1600, 3.2sec exp taken at 19:22 EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comet C\/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is a long-period comet, with an 80,000-year orbit around the sun. We were south of Newburgh Monday night, had the first camera image at 19:12 EDT but did not know it. This is one of the fun ones, where the plane suddenly altered course to avoid collision with the Comet! \ud83d\ude42 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10745,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10743\/revisions\/10745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}