Wallpaper author:
Alistair Scobie
06 Apr 2026
Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard)
The gallery display makes it impossible to show this image as intended as it shows a square crop of the central section of my main image , losing the head and tail of the comet. This is my square crop of my original so that the head of the comet is preserved
Dataset from which the image was processed
Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard) Mosaic
1 credit
- Type of target............................................................................................................................Comet
- Camera............................................................................................................................FLI PL16803
- Target coordinates............................................................................................................................RA 325.64166 Dec -35.33528
- Hemisphere............................................................................................................................Southern
- Telescope location............................................................................................................................Australia
- Transient event............................................................................................................................No
- Observed on............................................................................................................................31 Dec 2021 - 31 Dec 2021
Filter | Avg Exp (s) | Total Exposure | Subframes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luminance | 216 | 18m | 5 |
| Red | 72 | 6m | 5 |
| Green | 90 | 6m | 4 |
| Blue | 90 | 6m | 4 |