The Chance for a bright comet in the second half of October 2024

The 200mm NIKON Zoom lens does have quite a good amount of chromatic aberation (CA). It seems to have some tilt as well, as you can see on the upper left corner.

For almost all images

Cameras : NIKON D7000 and LUMIX G110
Exposure : Image series - see below images
Software : SIRIL, GraXpert, Gimp

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS C/2023 A4
Date - Time : 24 October 2024 - 17:42 UT+
200mm NIKON ZOOM 70..200mm at 200mm F5.6
Camera on my GP mount and tracking
Series : 97 * 20 sec (= 1940 sec = ca 32 Minutes)

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS C/2023 A4
Date - Time : 21 October 2024 - 18:37 UT+
200mm NIKON ZOOM 70..200mm at 200mm F5.6
Camera on tripod and NO tracking
Series : 35 * 5 sec (= 175 sec = ca 3 Minutes)

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS C/2023 A4
My first sighting of the comet and simple imaging
Date - Time : 15 October 2024 - 17:42 UT+
LUMIX G110 and Leica Zoom at F3,0 at 60 mm (MFT camera)
on tripod and NO tracking
Series : 4 * 3 sec (= 12 sec)

Setup with Nikon D7000 + 70..210mm Zoom and Dew Heater and Finder Scope on the GP mount
Date - Time : 21 October 2024

Equipment

Optics              : Omegon Pro APO Triplet ED FCD-100 d=85 f=510mm Apochromat (f=1/6)
                    : Intes MK-67 Maksutov Type Reflector d=150mm f=1800mm (f=1/12)
Camera              : Omegon veTec 533 C Colour CMOS Camera with IMX533 square 9MP sensor 3,75µm pixels
                    : QHY 5III715C Colour CMOS IMX715 8,2MP sensor 1,45um pixels high speed
                    : NIKON D7000 DSLR unmodified (from 2011)
                    : The Imaging Source DMK21AU4.AS monochrome USB highspeed camera
                    : Panasonic LUMIX G110 MFT System (from 2021)
Filter              : IR/UV Cut, Astronomik H-Alpha, Astronomik LRGB set + filter drawer
add. optics         : ED 2x Barlow lens, eyepiece projection
                    : 35mm, 50mm, 135mm and 200mm NIKON lenses available
                    : 2.8/60mm Sigma, 12 .. 60mm Leica for MFT system
Mount               : VIXEN GP Highspeed Step Motors (Non Vixen Motors)
Controller          : EQStar Pro (since May 2023)
Guiding             : PHD2
Aquisition          : DELL Notebooks (Windows 10 & Windows 11), SharpCap, FireCapture and others
Image Processing    : DeepSkyStacker, Siril, Gimp and others

latest list update  : October 2024