Comet Lemmon captured above Muker in Yorkshire Dales

A photographer who captured a comet within the night time sky above the Yorkshire Dales stated he spent weeks ready for the proper second for the shot.

Dominic Reardon, who lives Arnside, Cumbria, travelled to Muker in North Yorkshire to {photograph} Comet Lemmon on 25 October.

He stated he was “watching the weather forecast like a hawk” earlier than lastly getting a niche within the clouds and his probability to take his picture.

The comet, formally often known as C/2025 A6, was detected in January by astronomers on the Mount Lemmon Survey in Arizona and won’t return for 1,300 years.

Mr Reardon, 29, stated he took his picture of the comet by utilizing a telephoto lens and a star tracker, which permits the digicam to comply with an object because it strikes throughout the sky, in an effort to accumulate extra mild and picture information.

He took a number of exposures over a interval of two hours from 17:00 till 19:00.

“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 – which takes a good 30-45 minutes – only to have the night ruined by clouds, rain or wind,” he stated.

“I had thought I wasn’t going to get chance to capture it, and then finally got an opportunity. I was excited and relieved.”

He used a special method to seize the constructing within the foreground earlier than mixing the photographs collectively to create the ultimate {photograph}.

Comet Lemmon got here closest to the earth on 21 October, when it was 56 million miles (90 million km) away.

The Royal Astronomical Society stated it might be closest to the solar on Tuesday and coincided with the annual Orionid meteor bathe, which is more likely to be seen till 7 November.