Observation by Grant Privett: c/2023 H5

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Grant Privett

Observer

Grant Privett

Observed

2025 Feb 06 - 01:00

Uploaded

2025 Feb 08 - 02:15

Objects

C/2023 H5 (Lemmon)

Equipment

SX Trius 694
300mm f/4 Newtonian
SW NEQ6

Exposure

20x 60s

Location

Near Salisbury, UK.

Target name

c/2023 H5

Title

c/2023 H5

About this image

Another of my sporadic images of comets. When I first looked for this comet it was lost in the glare of a bright star. 20 minutes later I started getting a decent pic as the tail pulled away.

Late Edit: As Nick pointed out below, I got the year wrong in the original title. Thought I had previously edited it, but I probably forgot to press "Save".

Files associated with this observation

c2023h5-20250205-sub.jpg (334.9 kB)

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Andy Wilson, Dominic Ford

Comments

Nick James, 2025 Feb 08 - 22:22 UTC

I find that faint comets have a habit of hiding close to bright stars! Good to see you going after these fainter comets. Nice image and the object ID is correct but could you correct the title please? This is C/2023 H5 not C/2025 H5. We don't get to H until the second half of April...

Grant Privett, 2025 Feb 09 - 11:25 UTC

Yeah, its official. Grant's brain is missing.

Nick James, 2025 Feb 09 - 17:28 UTC

I thought you'd perfected time travel...

Grant Privett, 2025 Feb 09 - 22:14 UTC

Have you seen the price of flux capacitors these days?

And I'm not sure my car would do 87mph.

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