Quick Lulin last night 16th March

Garyh · #1 17-03-2009, 10:17 AM

Hi,
Well due to a unforeseen circumstances we still havn`t moved and the observatory shall be the last thing packed up!
Managed a quicky between low cloud of comet Lulin through the 8" f/4.6 scope. Only 7 x 150 sec shots with the Canon 20D. Fits nicely in the FOV and it`s getting into some nice starfields as it gets closer to the MW.
Will try again tonight before the moon rises.

cheers and thanks for peeking!
Gary

glenc (Glen) · #2 17-03-2009, 10:34 AM

Great image Gary.

I looked at Lulin with 20x80 binocs at about 10pm AEDT last night and thought it had a tail but it was hard to tell.
On your image the tail is at least 40' long in pa 96. The bright part in the core is mag 10.
The magnitude 15 galaxies on the left of the comet are ICs 2187 and 2188.

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #3 17-03-2009, 10:43 AM

She's still looking good!
Thanks for posting Gary.

iceman (Mike) · #4 17-03-2009, 10:56 AM

That's a very nice image, Gary. A lovely starfield too with old red stars.

RB (Andrew) · #5 17-03-2009, 11:04 AM

Beautiful indeed !

A lovely image Gary.

Garyh · #6 17-03-2009, 01:04 PM

Thanks for the info Glen! Thanks Jeanette, Mike and Andrew!
Has faded quiet a bit over the last few weeks for sure. Good to see some clear skies again but!

Quark (Trevor) · #7 17-03-2009, 02:28 PM

Very nice image Gary in a lovely star field.
Well worth the effort, a very pleasing image to admire.

Trevor

h0ughy (David) · #8 17-03-2009, 02:56 PM

fantastic - great to see that it is still making a good imaging target

gary · #9 17-03-2009, 05:02 PM

Nice shot!

Best Regards

Gary