More Lovejoy - Dec 28, Northern Vic

[John K]

Hi guys,

You're all propably getting tired to seeing Lovejoy photos, but drove out to Terrick Terrick National Park last night which is 80kms North of Bendigo for my first look at Lovejoy - better late than never I guess.

Sooooo good to see another bright, big comet, even though from the commentary on ISS and the amazing photos you have all been postings it may have faded a fair bit.

Tail was in the order of 15-20 degrees long and in my estimation less bright than the LMC, but certainly brighter than the SMC although the milky way interferes in its current location so difficult to estimate.

After Hyakutake and McNaught, cetainly great to see another comet of this size.

Photos taken with a Canon 400D, ISO 1600 as either a straight exposure at 2 minutes or a stack of 45 second expusures combined to give 11 minutes.

John.

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

LOL Never tired of comet images.
Only problem is I've run out of adjectives to describe how awesome they all are.

[Quark (Trevor)]

Good stuff John, a very nice record of Lovejoy.

Regards
Trevor

[renormalised (Carl)]

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

LOL Never tired of comet images.
Only problem is I've run out of adjectives to describe how awesome they all are.

Make some up

[renormalised (Carl)]

Brilliant shots, John

[Matt Wastell (Matt)]

Super stuff John
I am glad you got out amongst it!

[astronobob (Bob)]

Great work John, dig the colours between them and yep, the milkway is impeding on the tail quite a bit, I wonder how much better it would be if this comet in a less populated peice of sky ?

Nice captures

[stardust steve (Steve)]

great pics! did you use a tracking mount for these pics?

[John K]

Thanks for the comments guys, and well done everyone on your amazing photos.

Originally Posted by stardust steve

great pics! did you use a tracking mount for these pics?

The photo with the trees on the R/H side was a single 2 min tracked shot.

The other two shots were 45sec x 15 shots registered and stacked in Deepskystacker with 15 x darks as well

Originally Posted by astronobob

Great work John, dig the colours between them and yep, the milkway is impeding on the tail quite a bit, I wonder how much better it would be if this comet in a less populated peice of sky ?

Nice captures

Totally agree, I think it's in a bright part of the milky way, the tail would be way more visible if it was against a darker sky. Perhaps when it fades and moved away from the Milky way it will still look ok.