At 3 a.m., the overcast night sky above Tunisia’s Sahara Desert suddenly cleared, and astrophotographers Makrem Larnaout and Hafedh Driss spotted the glowing green Comet Lemmon through their high-powered telescopic cameras.
“The most striking feature [of Comet Lemmon] is the blue ion tail, long, straight, and delicate, stretching for millions of kilometers,” Larnaout told The Epoch Times. “This tail forms from ionized gasses, such as carbon ions, carried away by the solar wind.”
Images taken by the Tunisian photographers show fine filaments of cosmic dust smeared across outer space in the wake of the comet, its nucleus ablaze with emerald-green light. They required two synchronized RASA 8 telescope cameras—not to mention meticulous planning—to capture them….