Comet 17P/Holmes Outburst - now naked eye!

[h0ughy (David)]

10 second shot on tripod with canon 400D and 200mm lens obviously no tracking

[iceman (Mike)]

I'm determined to see it this week! Good shots dave!

[Garyh]

I don`t mind those shots Houghy, the radio tower makes a interesting foreground subject.
Got the best look at it last night since the full moon and it is still easily naked eye here. Managed to get some more pics of it between the fog.
cheers

[saberscorpx]

re: ...the radio tower makes a interesting foreground subject.

No doubt.
And too bad that gorgeous red-orange double isn't a permanent resident.


SJS

[DJVege]

Originally Posted by iceman

I'm determined to see it this week! Good shots dave!

So am I, but I'm losing hope. Every night I check the sky, and every night it's clouded. If I look South and the sky is clear, I'll look North, and it will be clouded. If the day is clear, the night will be clouded. At least it's rained lately.

[joshman (Josh)]

well here's the image as promised, as i said earlier, super rough alignment (read: plonked the mount down pointing roughly in the right direction)

taken at Gatton, QLD, 1:10am, 11-11-2007
33s @ ISO1600, 400D Primefocus through Skywatcher ED80 on HEQ5. minor brightness and sharpness adjustment in picasa2. full frame, resized.

[taminga16 (Greg)]

Well done Josh, looking forward to more of your images in the near future.

Regards,

Greg.

P.S. Don't be in a hurry to purchase more eyepieces just yet, borrow some different types on viewing nights and see if they match your expectations, in the end your view is the only one that counts.

[joshman (Josh)]

Originally Posted by taminga16

Well done Josh, looking forward to more of your images in the near future.

Regards,

Greg.

P.S. Don't be in a hurry to purchase more eyepieces just yet, borrow some different types on viewing nights and see if they match your expectations, in the end your view is the only one that counts.

thanks, and very sound advice, i've got a mate who has several ep's, so next chance i get i plan to borrow a few and try them out.

[RB (Andrew)]

Good work Houghy !

Josh you're off to a good start.

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Boy that thing is huge!!!! I haven't seen it for a week. It has grown enormously.


And yes we got clear skies to see it

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Here we go, hot off the press. Straight Raw to jpeg conversion using the Canon proprietary software. I hope to stack a few more tomorrow to take care of the noise.

1/ 180sec ISO800 F6

Canon 300D/Orion ED80/WO 0.8 FR/ Autoguided using TV Guider

The brown bit at the bottom is the top of my side fence

[RB (Andrew)]

Oh what a great shot Paul !!

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Thanks Andrew.

It looks awesome atm through 20x80 binos

[astroron (Ron)]

It was awsome in the 8"and 16" scopes, I have taken some tripod and piggyback shots as well as one at f/10in the 8" scope but as it is that funny stuff called filmI will have to wait for the film to be developed
Great pic paul

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

After so long being stuck inside, isn't it a great night out. I think I might be a bit late for work tomorrow.

[astroron (Ron)]

Called it anight after taking the last picture as it clouded over for about the tenth time tonightbut still enjoyed the observing that I managed to get in.
Even had a very small shower, just put acover over the scope for about an hourthen started again

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

A crop of a single 5 minute shot before packing up. Same details as before. Colour gradient removed and cropped in PS

[iceman (Mike)]

Wow Paul, they are awesome shots. Congrats.

[GrahamL]

yes it looks much bigger this week..seems to of moved a little..it now fills the view of my low power eyepiece.

[h0ughy (David)]

nice work Mr Ponders