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Old 23-01-2007, 05:46 PM
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Story Book Comet - the People's Comet!

what an amazingly photogenic comet!! we finally had a decent bit of weather and I had my first long clear view at a dark sky site - looked like a story book steam train/puffing billy smoke plume as it chuffed off south over the horizon -WOW

single unprocessed/uncropped image 4 sec exp iso 1600 from jpeg

http://southern-x.org/so_x/p1/p122nd_0850s.jpg

I have a nice collection of 10 sec raws @ iso 400 i can make a mosiac of the whole tail from eventually! and some film shots to come hopefully also, really needed to take darks,

it is fading unbelievably fast

my second 'sodium comet' after v1 (that did have a blue ion tail tho), read a lot about 'sodium comets' (some disparaging - have heard them called 'dirty') in the past, now ive seen a great one!
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