atlast a clear sky to image the comet. I tried ISO 400 to see if that would reveal more detail in the faint regions, but without any improvement IMO. The comet is still visible to the naked eye, although I don't think it will be for much longer, and the tail is shrinking.
This image is ISO 400, 4 minute exposure with 24mm lens at F2 using 20Da.
Nice photos !
But the tail is very faint. On Jan 9 the comet is within 2 degrees from the South Pole so it rotates nearly around its head during the night.
For me from the north it is not visible, but in February I go to Bali and can (theoretically) see it but by then is is dimmed so far I cannot see it anymore.
Thanks everyone for your comments. I am stacking 11 exposures from this morning to see if that brings out some more tail detail.
I would not say my skies are real dark due to Port Lincoln being only 5kms to the south. Its a city of about 14,000 so not large, but still enough to bugga up a perfectly dark sky; the glow reaches up about 30 degrees. I don't use any LP filters.
here is the image with 10 exposures from this morning stacked. Still hard to really nail down where the tail ends, but if some of you more skilled could blink it with another image, would take the guess work out of it.
