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Originally Posted by cometcatcher
Eastern morning comets are my favourite since that's where my adhoc observatory is positioned - out the window. Western is very difficult for me unless I go for a walk down the backyard, then imaging becomes difficult since the camera has to be connected to a full size PC that can take a PCI capture card.
Difficulties aside Comet Pojmanski is an excellent photographic target but visually it's a bit disappointing. I remember T7 Linear as a beautiful comet with a long easy to see visual tail in small scopes but this one is just a fuzzball at best and amost star like at low power.
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More comet magic from the bedroom window!!
well what can I say you have surpassed even yourself in this effort B2catcher. I am seriously impressed! Its made its apparition all the more enjoyable, appreciate that
T7 was a very nice comet, exotic even, remarkable colour!! and loved the classic anti-tail earlier on. telescopic views were very good on it too, better than most are :-))
i remember I got more length in the anti-tail in the 8" dob than we did photographically! I think? around 2º or a little more? from memory? from a dark site.
Kevin did you catch C/2000 WM1 after its outburst in early 2002?, now that was a very serious eastern/morning comet
the best ever telescopically for me, that and C/2001 A2 would be my pics morning comets in recent times.
PS what is the FOV of last pic?, cheers.
- must be getting low for ya now?
