New comet C/2015 G2 (Master)

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Originally Posted by cometcatcher

Let us know how you go tonight Justin. I only have a stubby tail tonight but conditions were poor also.

I braved many bad things outside to get this image lol.

No luck unfortunately!!

Clouds just won't go away.

I'll try again Friday.

Cheers,

Justin.

[doppler (Rick)]

No tail in my pics either, do you think maybe it has turned or stopped jetting?
It was a bad viewing night though, there must have been a lot of water vapour or dust in the atmosphere, the whole sky turned pink at sunset not just the clouds.

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

There was a disconnection event a couple of days ago (see Justin's pic) and since then the tail has been weak.

The sky was too poor at Sunset tonight so I didn't bother.

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

It's been challenge to do any imaging with almost constant cloud.

But managed a whole 33 minutes on masters tonight. 27/05/2015.

Had trouble stacking in DSS as it passed very close to bright star making comet registration difficult.
Ended up using Registax 5 to stack 14 x 60 sec exposures.

Even though this is taken in moon light I think Masters has faded.

Cheers,

Justin.

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

That's still a brilliant image Justin. Yes MASTER has faded somewhat and the tail is much fainter.

I barely got it with a 135mm lens tonight.

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

Full Moon has washed out the tail this evening, but I was bored and needed a comet fix anyway. More details in pic.

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

Pic from tonight. Full Moon present but it was low and the sky was cloud free. Comet G2 is now about Magnitude 8.

[doppler (Rick)]

Looks like its still got a tail. I'll have a go tomorow night with the 10" before the moon rises, looks like we have a few clear nights ahead.

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

Yes Rick, we will get a few clear days until the rot sets back in.

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

Tonight's piccy. Only got 5 minutes before cloud rolled in.

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

C/2015 G2 (MASTER) June 4 0830UT. This is the first night without Moon interference and the comet stands out much better.