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Old 08-11-2007, 11:02 PM
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LONEOS (C/2007 F1) Nov 4

Hi All,

Anne-Louise, the boys and I have just spent a week up on Mt Tamborine to try an get a good western sky for this comet.

Needless to say it was completely clouded out for almost the entire time. The only time we saw a sunset, and later, Scorpius was on Sunday the 4th. Having never set up an equatorial anywhere other than home, I had no idea if the dodgy compass I was using was anywhere near the south... it wasn't.

Huge tracking problems, flocks of mosquitos, and the thought that I should be upstairs helping Anne-Louise putting the boys to bed. I also was trying to dodge clouds still streaming from the west.

Here is my best effort. I only managed to grab 4 frames before the cloud swallowed the region, still I can use averted imagination on the tiff to see a hint of tail passing to the edge of the frame past Al Niyat.
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Old 08-11-2007, 11:09 PM
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Nice pic FL!
Good to see you've been able to capture it! Very rare to see it with all the rain going around!

Cheers!
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Old 09-11-2007, 01:26 AM
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Did some good viewing from a fellow stargazer's backyard on the 06/11 using her 8" F5 dob...took a while to find but worth the effort!!!
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Old 09-11-2007, 07:10 AM
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Nice result Tony - like you, I haven't seen a sunset in over a week.
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Old 09-11-2007, 09:11 AM
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Glad you got it Tony, I fear many will miss out due to this weather
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Old 09-11-2007, 11:47 PM
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Yes the weather has been a bit up in the air shall we say. I hoped to do longer exposures by my aligning was abysmal. I didn't have a scope setup to guide either so I didn't have better than bino view, plus I had the added advantage of being eaten alive by mozzies.

This is our first and only sunset from Sunset Ridge. From left to right and back to front, Mt Lindsay and Mt Barney, over Mt Witheren and Mt Misery. 300mm, various exposures and merged in Photoshop CS2.
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