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Saturday night's comet pics.

Postby Killakoala on Sat Jan 20, 2007 10:51 pm

The second night of visibility allowed me to improve my technique for shooting comets. Here's the resulting images. Both with D2H. Image 1 with 500mm F8 mirror lens and the second with 28-70 F2.8

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Postby Antsl on Sat Jan 20, 2007 11:18 pm

Great photos.... I just wish we did not have cloud yet again in Melbourne!
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Postby Gordon on Sat Jan 20, 2007 11:53 pm

I've just posted a few of my pics from tonight here:
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~loomberah/mcnaught.htm

a clear (almost) sky at last!
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Postby gunn parker on Sun Jan 21, 2007 12:31 am

Gordon wrote:I've just posted a few of my pics from tonight here:
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~loomberah/mcnaught.htm


Hi
Those first few photos are so good.
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Postby Big V on Sun Jan 21, 2007 1:00 am

Gordon - outstanding.. We had rain again tonight but hoping for clear weather Sunday night. It sure is a specky one - even through the clouds I could see part of the tail...
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Postby Killakoala on Sun Jan 21, 2007 10:16 am

Gordon, those first two images are stunning.
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Postby Big V on Sun Jan 21, 2007 11:18 am

Gordon, can you pass on to rob my congratulations on his photos - very fittting that one of the best that I have seen so far was taken by th eman who discovered it.
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Postby sirhc55 on Sun Jan 21, 2007 11:25 am

Gordon - #1 is a winner and should hang in a Hall of Fame of astrophotography :)
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Postby MATT on Sun Jan 21, 2007 11:26 am

These all are fantastic,

Now can I see this from QLD??? Took the kids out at before sunset, waited till the sunwent down and first bright star in the West was visabile. Could not see a thing wait ill it was dark. Maybe to low on the horizon ???

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Postby Killakoala on Sun Jan 21, 2007 11:32 am

Matt, it's clearly visible to the naked eye, (better with binos) about 30 minutes after sunset. It will be to the left of the sun and about a hand-span above the horizon and getting higher and further from the sun in the sky every night.
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Postby Gordon on Sun Jan 21, 2007 11:34 am

Thanks all. Yes Matt it is visible from Qld, its even visible from Colorado!
The tail is still above the horizon up there- just a few wispy streaks.
Best to find a nice dark sky well out of the suburbs with a low SW horizon. It should be quite obvious half an hour after sunset, well to the left of, and a bit above Venus and about the same height as the Moon tonight.
It looks like my clear sky window was rather small- lots of cloud just west of here, and heading this way now ;(
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Postby MATT on Sun Jan 21, 2007 11:38 am

Thansk for that.

Last night we could see the moon but there was some cloud low.. Will try again tonight.

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Postby colin_12 on Sun Jan 21, 2007 8:01 pm

It was a great night last night for the comet Steve. Nice pics by the way.

You have a nice place to view from Gordon. There are some nicely frmed images on your site.

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