Tried to capture a comet last week and got a blurry streetlamp instead

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Ha no that's such a bummer 😂 I actually read somewhere that most "comet photos" people post online are just light pollution or lens flares anyway, so you're not alone. Blurry streetlamp sounds like a rite of passage honestly, everyone who tries astrophotography ends up with one of those. I saw this one guy's video where he spent the whole night setting up for a meteor shower and got like 20 blurry photos of his neighbor's security light lol. At least you got a funny story out of it, plus now you know what NOT to do next time.

phoenix_grant17d ago

Bet the neighbor's security light was probably the clearest photo they got all night too, which makes it even funnier. Honestly that's the real struggle of space photography right there.

keith27417d ago

Rite of passage" is a bit dramatic, most people just mess up their first time.