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Tail out to 28.5 degrees this morning
Hi Kearn,
yes I remeber WM1 well. Those two links are great too.
You may remember the picture attached of WM1 that I took with the 400mm at f/6.3, Fuji P800 for 15 minutes from memory. This is closely cropped but shows the start of the Ion Tail snaking across in front of the two dust streamers.
With reference to Glenc's comments on the tail length I plotted the tail from Colin Legg's fine shot this morning and measured it out to 28.5 degrees. So she is still climbing as expected.
I made up a background chart from The Sky 6.0 programme. Turned it into a B&W negative, then penciled in the comet from photos we have taken this week, Colin's being the clincher. Re-scanned that and reversed it back ito a B&W image. This quite dramatically shows how the tail is growing as it comes towards us.
For tonight, and tomorrow morning the end of the tail will be against the dark of the Emu's neck which should improve the contrast immensely.
Cheers
Coops
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