Lovejoy Dec 25th 3:00

[spearo]

Hello,

Its been a while for me but i finally had a chance last night.

Went to bed with cloud-covered skies but awoke at about 3:00 to find the skies had cleared.

Tried a quick setup to see if i could mount the camera on a cg5 but couldn't get the framing i wanted so in the end, did the tried-and-true, camera on tripod.

Canon 7D, 25sec, ISO 800, F/4, 17-40mm @ 17mm.

Some pp in PS (offset the brightest trailing stars). Not the best image but i was just glad to be able to see the comet.

Felt good to be imaging again.

Cheers
frank

[renormalised]

Nice shot, Frank :)

Like the way you framed it :)

[astronobob]

Persistance has paid off Frank, better than my 1st sight of it this morn, Looks like you got there just in a nick of time, Well done ! !

[spearo]

Thanks Carl and Bob

Yes wish i could have done better but having missed out personally on McNaught I was just very happy to be able to see this awesome this time.
cheers
frank

[jjjnettie]

It was worth the effort wasn't it. :)

[GDGerry]

Nice shot!

Have you used the 17-40 much for astro work?

[naskies]

Nice one. It's an impressive sight, isn't it?