Widefield Lemmon and PANSTARRS animation

[alexch]

Hi All,

It was clear last night and I imaged comets Lemmon for 5 hours and then PANSTARRS an hour before astro-twilight with Sony NEX5N and Nikon 70-200 f/2.8 lens on Vixen Polarie (great little unit). There was quite a bit of wind but the setup held up reasonably well.

Here is a short animation:
http://vimeo.com/59571509
http://vimeo.com/59571509

Cheers,
Alex

[Limax7]

Fantastic! Great job ! Two comets but much different ;)

[iceman]

Wow, incredible work!

[Larryp]

Superb!

[RB]

Love your work Alex, awesome clips mate !!!

[h0ughy]

top shelf - thanks for the views

[StephenM]

Excellent animations Alex! Well done.

Cheers,
Stephen

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

Excellent work Alex!

Best animations so far!

Cheers,

Justin.

[lacad01]

Super stuff :thumbsup:

[colinmlegg]

Nicely done, Alex. Just did some Lemmon myself last night. Beautiful little comet.

[Johno]

Great video Alex.

[Ric]

That is so cool Alex

Top stuff

[multiweb]

Great vid Alex. Enjoyed that. :thumbsup:

[Osirisra]

That is wicked! great work.

Good to see some folk are getting some nice weather to enjoy these stunning comets.

[astronobob]

That is so neat Alex, Brilliantly put together ! A top class show !

[geoffsims]

This is ridiculously amazing. Nice work!!!

[multiweb]

That's so cool Alex. :thumbsup: I'm trying to get some Lemmon too tomorrow from Ilford. Wanted to go today but weather turned for the worse. so I'll take a chance Sunday night. Hopefully it's not too far ffrom the SMC and TUC47 by then . I hope to fit it in a 6x4 degrees field. If not I'll mosaic. (again). :P

[alexch]

Thanks for the comments, everyone!

I am hoping to give it another go tonight.

[alexch]

Thanks Marc,

You will need to mosaic, the comet will be 8.5 degrees away from SMC tomorrow night. Good luck!

[Matt Wastell]

APoD - fantastic image / animation!

[Peter Ward]

Well deserved APOD :thumbsup:

[RB]

Congratulations on your APOD Alex.

:)

[iceman]

Congrats Alex, another for the bag of accolades!

[carl37]

Awesome video Alex.

Was this taken in Flinders?

[alexch]

Thanks, Carl

Yes - the usual spot in Flinders. I updated the original video to include the widefield sequences

[John Hothersall]

Well done Alex, inspiring views of these nomads.

John.