Comet Lovejoy - the view from home.

Paddy (Patrick) · #1 30-12-2011, 10:15 PM

Maybe Comet Lovejoy will make imagers of all of us, of sorts

. Here is one of my efforts taken on the 29th Dec from home with my Canon 500D and 18-55mm kits lens on a tripod, single exposure 30sec f5.6 ISO 3200. Noise reduction and levels done in Photoshop. I never thought I'd be starting a thread in the astro images section of IIS, but this was hard to resist.

renormalised (Carl) · #2 30-12-2011, 10:28 PM

Nice shot, Patrick!!!

I like the effects of the red light through the windows there

Liz · #3 30-12-2011, 11:47 PM

Great image Paddy!! Lots of stars there, and comet looks good. The work of a serious astro imager.

Forgey (Paula) · #4 31-12-2011, 12:13 AM

very nice image !

CometGuy · #5 31-12-2011, 11:44 AM

Great work Pat, I like the composition of that shot with the foreground and twilight.

Terry

acropolite (Phil) · #6 31-12-2011, 11:46 AM

Nicely captured Patrick, I'm surprised anyone is getting images, I looked last night and Lovejoy had disappeared in to the city nightglow.

CometGuy · #7 31-12-2011, 11:52 AM

Yeh Phil I could not see it either from home. But it was there on images I took, but I could not see it with the naked eye.

Terry

Paddy (Patrick) · #8 31-12-2011, 02:34 PM

Thanks all. 'Tis especially wonderful to have one's images perused by the discoverer! It has certainly been a fantastic sight.