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Astrophotographer captures comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS growing an anti-tail (photos)

Miguel Claro is a professional photographer, author and science communicator based in Lisbon, Portugal, who creates spectacular images of the night sky. As a European Southern Observatory Photo Ambassador and member of The World At Night and the official astrophotographer of the Dark Sky Alqueva Reserve, he specializes in astronomical “Skyscapes” that connect both Earth and the night sky. 

This close-up image of comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) was taken from the Dark Sky Alqueva reserve in Portugal on Oct. 13, 2024 when the comet was displaying an impressive level of brightness and details, as well as a cool ‘anti-tail.’ 

In this photo, it also seems that the comet’s ion tail is also visible alongside its prominent dust tail. In addition to trailing long tails of dust and gases behind them, some comets develop an ion tail, a second tail made up of charged particles pushed away from comets by solar radiation and solar wind.

Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) as seen from the Dark Sky Alqueva reserve in Portugal on Oct. 13, 2024. (Image credit: Miguel Claro)

I processed this one with my deep sky techniques to recover as much of the original color and details hidden in the dust tail as possible, which are usually washed out, due to the bluish background light from the moon and the sun. 

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