European imager Javier Falcón Quintana imaged Comet PANSTARRS on March 13 at an elevation of 6,234 feet (1900 meters) height from the mountains of Gran Canaria, Spain. He reported, “The comet is brighter each night and noticeably increasing the length of its visible tail. This is becoming an amazing spectacle for Northern Hemisphere stargazers like me, and I wanted to share these exciting and unforgettable nights with you.” For this image, he used a 3.2-inch Equinox 80mm semi-apochromatic refractor at f/6.25 and a Canon 450D DSLR set to ISO 400. This was a 6-second exposure taken at 20h05m UT.

Javier Falcón Quintana