Clouds finally lifted around Brisbane, and work is not calling. I thought I'd visit a friend outside of Beaudesert tonight despite the Moon for a chance to see the comet again in dark (that is no city lights) skies. It is still pretty hazy and the comet was only just barely visible unaided, barely 2 deg tail. The 400D draged it out of the muck here. 2 images stacked, applied Photo Filter Cooling filter 82, and resized in Photoshop CS. 30s, f5.6, iso 1600, fl75mm.
Last edited by firstlight; 30-01-2007 at 06:16 PM.
Hi All,
Love all your shots Gordon, but can`t see your latest images?..only the 30mm ones from monday.
Had a go at imaging mcnaught in the morning but the weather was not on my side..clear but lots of smoke and mist making the horizon very murky. Comet barely visible in 10x50s , could only see a degree or two of tail but least I saw it and took a pic as well..have to try when the sky is transparent!!!
Heres proof....
Cheers Gary
Ok I finally got around to finish processing all of my McNaught images from the 18th, 19th, 20th and the 26th of January.
I've uploaded them to my Comet McNaught Image Gallery, but I'll attach some of my favourites here as well. There are 3 pages in the gallery.
The ones from the 18th, 19th and 20th were from IISAC2007 at Lostock, with Saturday (20th) being the best day in terms of brightness of the tail. The ones from the 26th (next post) were taken at Gosford waterfront, with lots of local light pollution as well as the waxing gibbous moon in the North. A much more difficult object to photograph as well as even see naked eye!
All beautiful shots Mike, I wish I got the full extent of the tail. On the best night I forgot to take my wideangle lense..then was clouded out till a few days ago...Love the jetty pics from 26th...very nice.
Cheers
The moon is definately spoiling our viewing of the comet.
But on the other hand we are getting more colour in our backdrops.
This picture was taken last night, 29th Jan.
15 sec at AV 3.2 ISO 400.
Hi everyone
Was looking at the comet with the 18" scope the other day and I noticed that the nucleus and coma appeared green. I thought that I was imagining that but some other people who turned up where I was observing from also noted the comet appeared green. It is still looking fantastic, far better than I imagined with the moon as bright as it is.
Must admit that some of the photos here are FANTASTIC. This must be the most photgaphed comet in history...
Clear Skies
Andrew
Hi everyone
Was looking at the comet with the 18" scope the other day and I noticed that the nucleus and coma appeared green. I thought that I was imagining that but some other people who turned up where I was observing from also noted the comet appeared green.
Andrew
Yes most definitely Andrew, the coma does have a green tint.
I picked it up photographically but it would be awesome to also see it thru large aperture !
Hi Andrew, the green colour of the coma has been washed out on most photos of the comet due to overexposure, but you can see it on my inset photo through the 25cm Newtonian last night, particularly around the sunward side of the coma. The core of it is overexposed in that image, but I'm sure the colour is right across it. Maybe I'll try for a nice coma photo tonight.
Lostock Rocked!
