The Astronomy Thread

Kajiimagi · 2025-10-18T00:10:50-0400

Burns said:
Checking on the observed magnitude has been kinda interesting, even though I don't have the ability to really peer though the light pollution. Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) has been consistently brighter than predicted, flirting with being visible to the naked eye (under 6.5 magnitude), depending on the light pollution. Think I saw it hit 5.9 observed yesterday or the day before, which supposedly means all you need are binoculars to get a decent look at it.

As of a few min ago:
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The other comet, that's from outside our solar system, is sitting at ~12+ magnitude, so pretty dim to us. I would assume it may need a professional or high dollar private observatory.

Only attempting C/2025 , in fact I have a few shots! I'll post something quick and dirty when I bring the telescope in. It's so low on the horizon to me and it's right as it gets dark (EDIT - Also I live in a bowl of mountains so low shooting is very tricky) so I'll be shooting over a few days. Good news is the lil Seestar can stack images on it! That will help me (hopefully) clean up the pics.

Kajiimagi · 2025-10-18T02:29:19-0400

Kajiimagi said:
Only attempting C/2025 , in fact I have a few shots! I'll post something quick and dirty when I bring the telescope in. It's so low on the horizon to me and it's right as it gets dark (EDIT - Also I live in a bowl of mountains so low shooting is very tricky) so I'll be shooting over a few days. Good news is the lil Seestar can stack images on it! That will help me (hopefully) clean up the pics.

Lol I'm a dumbass - I thought it was Lemmon , it's not it's Swan (the farther one). Here is a pic straight off the app (not cleaned up) I'm too damn tired to try cleaning it up. I'll mess with it more tomorrow and over the weekend.