Celestial Visitors

A Photo composite of multiple exposures. From the photographer: “This image was not an easy one to capture on so many levels. The amount of times having to move around to capture a composition I was satisfied with eventually paid off.

What opened my eyes with this photo is the amount of light pollution visible from my homelands. I am aware The Mendips sits on the Bortle Scale between 3/4. Even with the surrounding skyglow of Bristol and Weston-Super Mare, the comet was visible, but not impossible to tease out those finer details.

Comets are fascinating subjects. Ancient, icy visitors to the Solar System; and be greeted with clear skies has been such a treat. Not only was it possible to capture distortions in the comets ‘ion’ tail from the Sun’s ‘solar wind’, it appeared close to the Andromeda Galaxy (M31).

It just shows the universe never stands still in visualizing the depth of the universe.”