More comet images from SA!

[alexch (Alex)]

Originally Posted by Adelastro1

Thanks Alex! Why do you like that one over the rest? I can never pick the best one myself and never know what to enter into comps!
It was quickly processed too so I can tidy it up more yet, plus the small file size limit on here don't do many of the photo we put up justice.

So when are we seeing more pf your images Alex? We're all patiently waiting!

The composition in that shot works for me - the frame is quite balanced with lovely soft silhouetted trees on the left, The Mliky Way with the comet's tail, harsh barren trees on the right drawing attention to the comet and nice reflections on the foreground. Banded oxygen airglow is an added bonus.

I don't have any more Lovejoy images - this is it. I was lucky to see it once, then the weather was not too cooperative.

Cheers,
Alex

[Adelastro1 (Wayne England)]

Thank you Alex for your thoughts. Great to hear why you liked that one. It does have a lot of elements in it doesn't it when you put it like that!

It's a damn shame you didn't get to see more of it... would have loved to see more of your shots!

Wayne

Originally Posted by alexch

The composition in that shot works for me - the frame is quite balanced with lovely soft silhouetted trees on the left, The Mliky Way with the comet's tail, harsh barren trees on the right drawing attention to the comet and nice reflections on the foreground. Banded oxygen airglow is an added bonus.

I don't have any more Lovejoy images - this is it. I was lucky to see it once, then the weather was not too cooperative.

Cheers,
Alex

[alexch (Alex)]

Originally Posted by Adelastro1

Thank you Alex for your thoughts. Great to hear why you liked that one. It does have a lot of elements in it doesn't it when you put it like that!

It's a damn shame you didn't get to see more of it... would have loved to see more of your shots!

Wayne

N5 from 25th is great too. It would have been perfect without trailing stars but it's just my preference not too see star trails unless in a stratrail shot.

I wish too but I feel extremely lucky to have seen it once.

[Adelastro1 (Wayne England)]

Hi Terry and everyone,

I've finally got around to uploading the higher res versions of most of the images I posted in this thread. The links are below. Apologies that they are on a commercial sales website but it's the only place I have to put them at the moment. I'm not really trying to sell them to you! haha. One of my new years resolutions is to have my own website with these on....

I haven't had time to reprocess them much at all though. Always the way when you get back to work after holidays. Thank goodness the comet appeared when it did and I had time to photograph it and process them!

When these links open click on the image itself for a larger view. Scroll down for image details and some I will place a framed version below as well to see how they would look framed.

http://www.redbubble.com/people/powe...et-reflections
http://www.redbubble.com/people/powe...249542-glowing
http://www.redbubble.com/people/powe...-reflections-2
http://www.redbubble.com/people/powe...oy-over-mannum
http://www.redbubble.com/people/powe...-comet-lovejoy
http://www.redbubble.com/people/powe...oy-silhouettes
http://www.redbubble.com/people/powe...mp-reflections
http://www.redbubble.com/people/powe...ng-for-lovejoy
http://www.redbubble.com/people/powe...omet-lovejoy-2
http://www.redbubble.com/people/powe...-iridium-flare

Even though you can't see the comet, these two are startrails produced from a series of shots of the comet I took for timelapses:

http://www.redbubble.com/people/powe...ion-startrails
http://www.redbubble.com/people/powe...obe-startrails

Originally Posted by CometGuy

Yes a lovely sequence of Shots Wayne. Do you have any larger sizes anywhere?

Terry

[gregbradley]

A wonderful collection of images Wayne.

Greg.

[Adelastro1 (Wayne England)]

Bartman posted these links in another thread and I saw that they used my photo in the NASA article and Youtube video! How cool is that! It's even the thumbnail for the Youtube video.

And that probably explains why I had someone from the US email me today asking for a poster of the photo so they can put up in their planetarium building facility near Philadelphia! Haha. It's funny how things work.

I sent some photos to Spaceweather.com taken on 25th Dec which they picked it up from. I'm sending some more in now from the other nights that I imaged.


Originally Posted by bartman http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/....s/viewpost.gif

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w75lBn1QIaI
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news..._cometlovejoy/

Bartman

[greenpixie (Karli)]

Amazing photos

[stardust steve (Steve)]

Great images, that equipment really take some good pics
so vivid and great colours.