----------------------------------- nobody 23 Mar 2018 18:51 ----------------------------------- https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/astrocapetown/ — ATel (@astronomerstel) March 20, 2018 “I was collecting sub-frames of the Lagoon/Triffid Nebulae for a long-term HDR astrophotography project overnight while I slept. My setup is automated,” Dunsby told IFLScience. “In the morning I reviewed some of the frames and noticed the 'visitor'. I should have checked that it was something else before reporting,” he lamented. Dunsby said that “it was a very unfortunate error and something I would very much like to forget!” – but he’s clearly seeing the bright side of this perfectly honest mistake too. “I do, however, see the funny side of this little episode and I am glad that it has made some people smile. So I guess that’s good in a world where we don’t smile enough,” he added, rather movingly. http://www.iflscience.com/space/cosmology-professor-excited-discover-new-celestial-object-accidentally-rediscovered-mars-instead/