Today I got up at 4:30 to drive up to the Bödele, a nearby mountain pass. Luckily the weather predictions was right and the sky turned out to be very clear.

Again I used the 70-200mm zoom lens at 200mm, the Vixen Polarie was used for tracking.

Comet C/2013 US10 Catalina, 30×30″, ISO 3200, f/4, Nikon D750, 70-200 f/4

Again the inverted image

Comet C/2013 US10 Catalina, 30×30″, ISO 3200, f/4, Nikon D750, 70-200 f/4

A crop from the image above showing the comet.

Comet C/2013 US10 Catalina, 30×30″, ISO 3200, f/4, Nikon D750, 70-200 f/4

The tail disconnection event as documented by Gerald Rhemann and Michael Jäger left it’s marks on comet Catalina, the ion tail is much weaker now.

Comparison between December 10th and December 13th

Comparison between December 10th and December 13th

While the D750 was taking images of Catalina I busied myself and the D7000 to try to catch some Geminid meteors. The zodiacal light was very much visible.