Thanks for that Sparrow.. i'm contemplating getting up tomorrow morning to image Uranus and Neptune. Might have a go at the comet while i'm there.
Mike I praise your optimism, but looking at the weather gods chart you might be pushing it a little? We are expecting rain tomorrow all day, and most of weekend, however if it goes by the way the week went it was cloudy then went come hours before sunrise.
RB's and Comet man's images are truly inspiring, hope to see them in coming issues of S&S and AS&T!
Have you a collection of planets for the year yet? (aside topic)
Looking through my new binos this morning I found the tails to be right in line with each other almost, its an awesome sight, I am glad I have seen it.
Looking through my new binos this morning I found the tails to be right in line with each other almost, its an awesome sight, I am glad I have seen it.
New Binoc's!! do tell h0ughy, what did ya get? will we see a review?
should of said this earlier, Some trivia info for total newcomers to comet observing: what we are seeing with the daily positioning of fragments in relation to each other atm, and particularly this morning gone (june 1st), is the result of the earth crossing the orbital plane of the comet, viewing it edge on so to speak - never seen it so well illustrated visually!, although anomalous tails (antitails ect.) can also demonstrate that well.
New Binoc's!! do tell h0ughy, what did ya get? will we see a review?
should of said this earlier, Some trivia info for total newcomers to comet observing: what we are seeing with the daily positioning of fragments in relation to each other atm, and particularly this morning gone (june 1st), is the result of the earth crossing the orbital plane of the comet, viewing it edge on so to speak - never seen it so well illustrated visually!, although anomalous tails (antitails ect.) can also demonstrate that well.
rises just a bee's whisker south of due east Norm, at 2:30 am and swings to the e/n/e (like the ecliptic) with component C reaching an altitude of around 40 degrees by 5:30 am (for here at ~35 south in SA)
Sparrow posted a handy chart on previous page
Both fragments/components are in now getting slightly fainter and smaller each passing day - with C atm in the low 7's of mag and B fainter in the higher 7's of magnitude.
here's a reduced for d/l (160kb) quicktime movie made with SNP showing the position of comet/fragments at each day @ 5:30 am for 35southish, covering dates starting back at 28th may (to illustrate orbital crossing - blue line comets orbit) to 8th of june (finish) http://southern-x.org/so_x/73p/73p-sw3may28june8.mov
when I select on it, after d/l, I can use the wheel on my mouse to show each jerky movement of a day in freeze frames.
Hi al
I managed to squeeze in a shot of the brightest fragment with Bert's 300mm lens as it peeked out between the house and the TV antenna just before dawn.
4x5 mins ISO400 UHCS and UV/IR filter. Id been imaging the Helix beforehand and left the nebula filter in place for the comet. This is a crop as the TV antenna and house appera in the full frame shot.
Scott
Wow! Thats very impressive Scott! very very impressive, so the nebula filter would of brought out more dust in the tail I would guess at looking at it? excellent
its a shame these beautiful shots gets buried in the thread - be good to have a new page/thread of a collection of the images from this thread or end page with all the pics again of the comet? just so they see light of day again
any thoughts?
1: What a magnificent image there Scott, so much detail. An awesome shot indeed.
2: Yes these images should have there own thread in the solar system imaging section. I'll see about starting one up. I'm reprocessing my image of the two comets so I'll repost it there as soon as it's ready.
Thanks .
I had the UHCS filter on from previous deep sky imaging and thought Id leave it in with Berts 300mm lens
Heres a pic fitting in both fragments (gee the dimmer one has faded a lot now), this time without the UHC-S filter, 3 x 5 mins ISO 200, 300mm f2.8, taken Thursday morning.
Scott
I forgot to mention the field in my shot isnt very flat as the dratted TV antenna was right in the middle thus the flats I took later cant remove it, I manually used the dodge and burn tool in Photosho as best I could.
Scott
good choice :-)
thus the flats I took later cant remove it, I manually used the dodge and burn tool in Photosho as best I could.
