Comet McNaught Animation from Snake Valley

[ballaratdragons]

Animation of the movement of Comet McNaught P1 2006

I should have thought of doing this a week ago while the sky was Moonless and the tail reached right up into the sky displaying the whole fan, but here it is anyway. With lots of Moon.

Comet McNaught from Snake Valley, Victoria, Australia, by Ken James (ballaratdragons)
28th January 2007
Unaided Modified Toucam 840k Pro II in Long Exposure Mode
17 x 15 second images, captured in 'Desire' and animated in 'PaintShop Pro Animation Shop'.

http://snake-valley-astro.homelinux.org/members_pages/ken/ken.html

Sorry to the people on Dial-up :ashamed:

[RB]

That's fantastic Ken !
Well done.

:2thumbs:

[mojo]

Nice one Ken! :thumbsup:

Ok. Have we got the comet from every possible angle now? :lol:

[ballaratdragons]

Thanks Andrew & Terry :)

Nah, I'm sure there's a few more angles yet! :lol:

[ballaratdragons]

There's a few Hot Pixels in there sorry :doh:

[RB]

Yep but that's fine Ken, just tell people they're geo-sync satellites.

[danielsun]

Yep i spotted the geostationary satelites too!! Thats excellent Ken!!
Well done.:thumbsup:

[fringe_dweller]

looks really good Ken, felt like we are there with ya! amazing :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[leon]

Very well done Ken i like it, Gee you are a clever man :whistle:

Cheers leon :thumbsup:

[ballaratdragons]

Thanks for the comments guys.

Once the Moon racks off again I am going to try an Animation starting in Daylight, then show the comet magically appearing as the sky darkens, thru to full comet in pitch dark sky.

Should be an interesting effect.

[gaa_ian]

Seems the server is down Ken ?

[erick]

Perhaps it's time to get up early and film comet rise?

[ballaratdragons]

Nope Ian, link works fine here :shrug:

[firstlight]

When does it go circumpolar from your location, ballaratdragons? I had a feeling Melbourne is about now. After the moon goes, you can keep going until Moonrise :D.

Cheers
Tony

[gaa_ian]

All came good later in the evening :shrug:
Great Animation Ken :thumbsup:

[janoskiss]

That's great Ken. The motion really brings the image to life. :)

[venus]

never get tired of viewing the comet, great work Ken.

[Miaplacidus]

That is just brilliant. Well done.