A Dutch astrophotographer living in Groningen managed to film a timelapse of a comet that is around five times the size of Jupiter.<br /><br />Comet Atlas has been dubbed by astronomy experts as the comet of the generation and is expected to light the earth's sky due to the shear brightness of it.<br /><br />Matthijs Burgmeijer, an astrophotographer, told Newsflare: "I used my DSLR camera attached to my 10-inch Newtonian reflector telescope to gather the frames needed for this clip. <br /><br />"To keep the comet centred in the frame over a long period of time I have to compensate for earth's rotation. For that, I use a motorized equatorial mount. <br /><br />"I shot 160 frames each with an exposure time of 80 seconds at iso. I then converted all these frames to a single clip with a frame rate of 20fps. effectively bringing almost three hours back to 8 seconds."<br /><br />This timelapse was filmed on March 29.
