What a wonderful gift - a christmas Comet Love - o joy

[h0ughy]

i caught up with Scott Alder, Alan Meehan at strezlecki lookout this morning and captured this image with the point and shoot Canon G12. it stood out like the proverbials - lovely.

i hope to get some more shots christmas morning - the perfect astronomers gift

[jjjnettie]

:D Merry Christmas David.

[h0ughy]

thanks JJJ

[RB]

Nice one Dave !

Merry Christmas mate.
(LOL..... Christmas morning imaging Lovejoy, nice knowing you, BTW I'm tempted too...:whistle:)

[alan meehan]

Nice shot Dave your right what a christmas gift
AL

[h0ughy]

nar nar i did it and lived so far....... but will have to look at the images later

[h0ughy]

sure is - Merry CHristmas Terry - thanks for discovering this wonderful comet:thumbsup:

[gregbradley]

Great shot Houghy.

Greg.

[astronobob]

Great wide field Houghy, nicely done !
'Ave A 'Appy !

[Quark]

Nice work Houghy, pretty amazing timing really, a beautiful bright comet for Christmas.

Cheers
Trevor

[Analog6]

Lovely work - settings, settings, please! And time of shot?

[erick]

Great capture David. :thumbsup:

Yes, exactly what you said. I drove down to Mona Vale Beach at 3:30. Lights everywhere, eyes not adjusted and looked out the windscreen and said, No, that cannot be it - must be a stream of cloud. Spent 5 minutes eyes adjusting and looking around and, blow me down, that was the end of tail I was seeing, rising above low cloud and sea mist!

I was quite surprised at how bright it was to the eyes off suburban Sydney!

[tornado33]

Great framing there, a good focal lentgh to show the true size of the comet.
Scott

[h0ughy]

i had a muck about with the cruddy data i have with the other camera - well its the memories that count - not the quality:rofl: it is a crop and it is out of focus - i forgot to turn off the autofocus:help: about 8 shots stacked - 40sec

[naskies]

I like it! The constellations are very distinct and it almost looks like relativistic bending of space-time :lol:

The best part about memories is that you can say the comet was this <-------------------> big! Oh wait, it really was! :rofl:

[h0ughy]

here is a shot from the boot lid with the 30D and the 70-200 lens @ 70. i need to stack the images but for a 6 sec shot its a joke:sadeyes:

i had this setup resting on a blanket on the opened tailgate lid:help:

[RB]

At least you got something ! :thumbsup:

Didn't you take your Astrotrac on holidays ???

:scared3: