Lovejoy imaged at Cookamidgra East of Parkes NSW

[anthony.tony]

Hello Last night 4 members Of the CWAS Parkes and a Guest travelled to Cookamidgra to Image Comet Lovejoy.They were John Sarkissian -Paul Clarke-Christine Speers and her son Phillip-myself Tony Trelford.We setup 4 cameras.Started taking images at about 1am.the last image I shot was at 4.41am.It was a good night With a good display of meteors and Iridium Flares to add to it.John noticed some faint Red glow in the south and wreckoned it was Auroral Activity -you can pick it in some of our images .We left the sight at 5.10am this morning -I got hame to canowindra at 6.30am. reguard's Tony

[John Hothersall]

Sounds like an enjoyable morning of images, comet is getting fainter but you picked it up very well with all the glorious Milkyway.

John.

[naskies (Dave)]

Great photos. I particularly like the first one - such wonderful atmosphere!

[anthony.tony]

Yes Photoshop helps to put 2 images together- Tony.I have Added 3 images taken by John Sarkissian with his Canon 400d tripod shots Processed in CS4.- Tony