I grabbed this shot on September 5th at 05:00 with Kstars from my home observatory in central New Mexico. In a side note - I did this from my bed, without waking up my wife. Oh the joys of having my own robotic observatory in my back yard.
15 x 30 seconds per each RGB filter
Controlled with KStars OSX
Post Processed with PixInsight
C/2023 P1 (Nishimura) is a long-period comet discovered by Hideo Nishimura on 12 August 2023. The orbital period of the comet is estimated to be 435 years. Japanese amateur astronomer Hideo Nishimura discovered the comet in images he obtained using a 200-mm f/3 telephoto lens mounted on a Canon EOS 6D on 12 August 2023, when the comet was 1.0 AU from the Sun. It is possible that it could be bright enough to observe with binoculars in the first days of September before sunrise. On 12 September 2023 the comet will pass 78 million miles from Earth but will only be 15 degrees from the glare of the Sun, so very difficult to see.