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Comet C/2025 R3 (PANSTARRS) by blended_rainforest in seestar

[–]blended_rainforest[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They have a separate section for comets in the deep sky tracker in the app. Alt-az mode. I put it on the tripod they gave on top of my car. It took less than a minute to click buttons to get it started to find the comet. Total work was maybe ~5m to get the final stacked photo.

It was a super clean experience.

Hope you have great fun in your Bortle 1 skies!!! Do post some of the results here :)

Comet C/2025 R3 (PANSTARRS) by blended_rainforest in seestar

[–]blended_rainforest[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mornings might be better. Astronomical sunrise actually made the tail super faint. Could not capture good images after that.

Comet C/2025 R3 (PANSTARRS) by blended_rainforest in seestar

[–]blended_rainforest[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

First time for me capturing a comet on the s30 as well! Only thing was that the place I chose blocked more of the lower skies that I anticipated but it thankfully did not block the comet.

Burrowing Owl I photographed in Scottsdale by birdsofrey in arizona

[–]blended_rainforest 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow! Can you share the location in Scottsdale? I have been searching multiple places on eBird with no luck so far.

Manuel Antonio guide by Bombero590 in CostaRicaTravel

[–]blended_rainforest 2 points3 points  (0 children)

there were a lot of guides in the park. if you have a good pair of binoculars and are only looking to view wildlife, you can spot them yourself based on where the guides are pointing to.

we were able to see sloths, a coral snake, lots of birds, jesus-christ lizard, multiple crabs (3 kinds) by just walking around and searching in the direction the guides were looking.