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Tuesday Night 14 degrees of tail in Bino's!
Well after having written the night off it promptly cleared. The 1600 ISO film didn't deliver the goods. I would have been better off stciking with the more recent Fuji Superia X-tra 400 which I still have plenty of.
On top of that, after spending a good amount of time getting the focussing right on my Canon 450D I maust have knocked it before my first actual comet shot because the focus had popped.
The real sucess for the night, in fact the only sucess, was the view through my 10 x 50 Nikon's. Transparency was 8/10 and meant that I could trace the tail for two bino fields, about 14 degrees in all.
I'm heading over the mountains to our annual Stardate convention this weekend and hope to have another chance to check it out from there. As well I will be catching up with everyone and chewing over comet tales for those of us who actually saw it, some of my old mates from the top half of the North Island didn't get to see Lovejoy at all, so good has been their summer!
Cheers
Coops
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