Comet ATLAS Flying Past the Fen
“You are damaged and broken and unhinged. But so are shooting stars and comets.” -Nikita Gill
Try new things! Embrace curiosity.
You will be happier for it. You will build confidence and release much needed dopamine in your brain.
This is even more crucial for us, as adults. It’s easy to get stuck in the day to day, the doing for everyone else routines. Sometimes we need to break away and do something for ourselves.
Dirty snowballs zooming through space. Older than time, comets get close to the Sun and flair their tails.
Comet ATLAS was the first one I tried to photograph. It is always nerve-racking to try something new, but I did my planning and it worked out great.
The first time I saw ATLAS was the night of the full moon. The sky is very blue because the moon was big and bright right behind me.
The next night I brought my family to experience the comet too. This time there was some time between sunset and moonrise. Time to photograph the comet without such a blue sky, with the beautiful colors of sunset still glowing on the horizon.
We sat up on the lookout and scanned the sky to the west. It was very hard to see the comet. It wasn’t until I found it with my zoom lens that we really knew where to look. After that, we could make it out with our bare eyes, but barely. Binoculars and the camera were our ticket to a really good view.
That is one thing I really appreciate about cameras, they help us see so many things we can’t normally see on our own. The sheer number of stars, the galaxies and nebulae, even where to find the northern lights.
