A photographer who captured a comet in the night sky above the Yorkshire Dales said he spent weeks waiting for the perfect moment for the shot.<\/p>\n
Dominic Reardon, who lives Arnside, Cumbria, travelled to Muker in North Yorkshire to photograph Comet Lemmon on 25 October.<\/p>\n
He said he was “watching the weather forecast like a hawk” before finally getting a gap in the clouds and his chance to take his photo.<\/p>\n
The comet, officially known as C\/2025 A6, was detected in January by astronomers at the Mount Lemmon Survey in Arizona and will not return for 1,300 years.<\/p>\n
Mr Reardon, 29, said he took his photo of the comet by using a telephoto lens and a star tracker, which allows the camera to follow an object as it moves across the sky, in order to collect more light and image data.<\/p>\n
He took multiple exposures over a period of two hours from 17:00 until 19:00.<\/p>\n
“I’d been trying to find a gap in the weather for two weeks and had tried a couple of times before, but I would get fully set up \u2013 which takes a good 30-45 minutes \u2013 only to have the night ruined by clouds, rain or wind,” he said. <\/p>\n
“I had thought I wasn’t going to get chance to capture it, and then finally got an opportunity. I was excited and relieved.” <\/p>\n
He used a different technique to capture the building in the foreground before blending the images together to create the final photograph.<\/p>\n