AURORA IMAGES FROM THE CITY

Location:  Saint John, NB, Canada

Date Time:  October 10, 2024 2015-2040

Weather:  Breezy, cool, mostly cloudy, 8C & 73% humidity.  No bugs or dew.

Equipment:  Canon Rebel T3 with 18-55 mm lens.  Images processed on PhotoShop.

Report:

• The Current Auroral Oval on spaceweather.com was showing high activity all the way south of our location in Saint John, so I went out to the park beside where I live an took these images through the clouds and smoke from a nearby pulp and paper mill.  There were times when the aurora shone brightly through holes in the clouds, to the North East and to the North.  Images taken around 2030hrs.  A nice, bright First Quarter Moon was peeking out through holes in the fast moving clouds, in the south west.  Every once in a while, Arcturus would also appear in the north west.

2% Illuminated Moon & Comet Search

Location:  Saint John, NB

Date Time:  October 1st, 2024 0615-0645hrs

Weather:  Slight breeze, very humid, lots of dew, no bugs, mostly clear but a little hazy, 9C and 90% humidity.

Objective:  To view and image Comet Atlas-Tsuchinshan, which was reported to be next to the thin waning crescent Moon.

Report:

• Searched for the comet for over 20 mins with binoculars, and could not see any sign of a comet.  Images didn't reveal the comet either.  A beautiful morning sky, including a very thin, 2% waning crescent Moon made it an enjoyable search.

Comet search eastern/south eastern sky.

Note to commenter:  This platform or google(same thing?) blocked me from commenting, for some reason.  Here is my response.

Thanks for taking the time to do this!  Below the image you worked on is another image I took of the eastern and south eastern horizon.  I felt that was beyond where the comet could be, according to it's reported location, but as I'm still trying to locate it, I took a huge swath of eastern sky simply trying to locate it.  Just finding this comet is turning into a story in itself.