Comet Leonard & Globular Cluster M3

I imaged the Comet Leonard together with globular cluster M3 in one frame.
Equipment:
-Skywatcher Newtonian Telescope 🔭 (750/150)
-Canon Eos 700Da DSLR
-Skywatcher EQ6-R Pro
-APT, Deepskystacker, PHD2, Gimp
-40s exposures
-30min total integrated expose time.
Leonard will make its closest approach to the Sun on 3 January 2022. It may reach naked eye visibility in December 2021. At an apparent magnitude of 4, it should be a good binocular comet. On 10 October the comet showed a short but dense dust tail. As of late November the comet has a total magnitude (coma+nucleus) of around 8.
On the morning of 6 December 2021 the comet will be about 5 degrees from the star Arcturus. On 14 December 2021 the comet will be 14.7 degrees from the Sun and will quickly become better seen from the southern hemisphere. The forward scattering of light could cause the comet to brighten to as much as magnitude 1.
-Wiki
Clear skies!
-Chris

[@NebulaPhotos]

Lovely capture! I will try tonight too

[@catchingphotons]

Thanks Nico, much appreciated.
Looking forward to seeing your results!!
Clear skies!

[@GalaxyArtMedia]

Hi Nico! Congratulations for 100k

[@smalloptics753]

Fantastic! love how you've captured M3 in the frame as well... Looks spectacular.. Great stuff :D

[@catchingphotons]

Thanks 😊😊👍

[@spacemanschannel6380]

This is so beautiful. Amazing work.

[@catchingphotons]

Thank you very much!!

[@VeryInterestingChannel]

Spectacular

[@catchingphotons]

Thank! Was a lot of fun! :-)

[@TheCudder4life]

This is AMAZING! Good job dude!

[@catchingphotons]

Thanks a lot!!

[@Nottsboy24]

Nice capture 🔭

[@catchingphotons]

Thanks a lot!!!

[@deathtotruthers1]

This is stunning.

[@catchingphotons]

Thanks a lot!! Well appreciated!

[@craft.for.everyone]

Beautiful marvelous well done 😲

[@catchingphotons]

Thank you very much!!

[@charimuvilla8693]

Beautiful picture Chris! I find it very interesting that the tail is not parallel to the comet's orbit. You can see it sort of "drifting" in the video.

[@catchingphotons]

Thanks!! Yea the tail is bound to the solar winds (or magnetic fields) and thus is not bound to the orbits direction. Far away both co-align but much closer to the sun the difference gets apparent.
Clear skies!!

[@bsn47]

Excellent.... Tonight I will try to capture ...

[@catchingphotons]

Thanks! Please do try and don't forget to tag me over on Twitter. I'm eager to see some more results!! 😎👍

[@texdoms]

Sweet! Nice work!

[@catchingphotons]

Thanks Dom!

[@SudeepJoshi22]

beautiful!👌👌

[@catchingphotons]

😉 thanks!!

[@GalaxyArtMedia]

Very nice buddy!. I hoped for a week for the clouds to go away but i lost the window to capture it near this nice clusters!

[@catchingphotons]

I had luck with the weather. Forecast said rain and clouds but they vanished in time. Thanks for the encouraging words anyway! See you around!

[@GalaxyArtMedia]

@@catchingphotons Thanks Chris. i hope soon i can get the automated setup to control the mount with ease from inside the house, had some delays, but hope soon i can get a working stable setup and we can make also the collaboration video. I have a small observatory in mind for the best solution but that might take a little more.

[@hoaithanhnguyen7178]

it is very nice shot bro!

[@catchingphotons]

Thanks!!! ☺️👍

[@icy6248]

Very nice

[@catchingphotons]

Thank you icy! 💪

[@infozone787]

Wow... Awesome.... New subscriber is here

[@catchingphotons]

Thanks :-)

[@av-ji9qy]

WOW !!!!....nothing more to say

[@catchingphotons]

Thanks!!!

[@cuvarsnova]

I don't stand a chance, it's snowing a lot here and it will fall for at least another 5 days. I'll enjoy in your footage as I put the wax on the skis :)~

[@catchingphotons]

Haha oh no! But skiing sound cool as well!

[@OdeMora]

Venus shines like a sackcloth.

[@catchingphotons]

I'm not rooted enough in the English language to get this saying. Clear skies anyways!

[@Littlefish1239]

New sub

[@catchingphotons]

Welcome on board!

[@cuvarsnova]

Dear coffee drinker, your name was drawn in the prize game. You won the first prize - managing the James Web Telescope for the first 5 years. There is only one condition and that is that you first do a deep field view. Your NASA :)~

[@catchingphotons]

I'd immediately agree 😂
Lucky us the JWT is made for deep fields :-) I'm so excited to see the first result!!!

[@cuvarsnova]

@@catchingphotons We will wait 1 year for a deep field view. That's what a guy from NASA told me. First layer facing the mirror is reflective, it itches me a bit ~

[@anzelevec6401]

How did you stack them to make comet in one place, ist it possible to do this with Deep sky stacker too?

[@catchingphotons]

Yes it's possible. You need to add the comets location in every sub frame and set Deepskystacker to "comet mode". Just search for the manual. It's fairly simple.
I chose the way of stacking both "just comet" and "just stars" and recombined in gimp.
Clear skies!!

[@anzelevec6401]

@@catchingphotons thanks, didn't know it's possible, will definetly try, clear skies for you too!

[@billturner4427]

Very nice

[@catchingphotons]

Thank you Bill!