Spotted Comet 12P - Pons Brooks

A couple of days ago, @o1eh shared something celestially interesting and asked us: Save If You Like to Look at the Sky.

Of course, event-horizon likes to look at the sky (with great longing). (pun-intended)

She even packed her telescope and took it on the trip to the mountains (where she's currently at). She had this idea in mind while writing this comment. Let's see if she had any success.

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I took a telescope to the mountains because where I live, light pollution makes it hard to make out anything in the sky. I have to squit even on clear nights to spot them tiny silver dots.

Is it my hard luck or what, it's been 4 days and it's either raining all day and night or it's completely overcast.

Yesterday, while hurrying my way to the dinner, I casually glanced at the sky which was looking beautiful and there I spotted an unusually bright star. It looked strangely big.

^{See between the trees - I took this picture with my phone's camera in default settings}

My thoughts immediately went back to the comet 12P - Pons Brooks which should be visible in the sky with the naked eye on these dates. I took another picture and zoomed in 3x.

^{3x zoomed}

This picture made me even more excited because it was oddly shaped for what we usually see in the sky. In fact, we don't see anything besides dots.

I pushed my camera to its maximum zoom limit which is 30x.

^{30x zoomed}

How I wished for a better camera at that moment, even though I was pretty satisfied with my S21. Even more than that, I wanted to take out the telescope and set it up outside for the rest of the night, or at least as long as that bright star stayed above the horizon.

Unfortunately, when I finally had that moment, I couldn't use it. I had to join everyone for dinner and I couldn't be late even a minute.

While on the way to the dinner venue, I quickly searched for the exact coordinates for Pons Brook and got to know that I had just seen and captured the first comet of my life. To further confirm it, I did some research on what should a comet look like from Earth.

Comet should appear fuzzy and/or has a tail.

Although the last picture made me think of Saturn the exact location and the appearance confirm that it was the comet 12P - Pons Brook. ((:

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I wanted to explore it with a telescope today but it was again cloudy today. I'm hoping to have some success while my trip lasts.

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P.S. I'm on a trip and wasn't sharing any content to avoid jeopardizing the quality but this couldn't wait.