Does anyone happen to have an image of it and the sun (and trees for scale). I am having trouble understanding scale in the pics above, and can't work out how far from the sun I am supposed to be looking.
Going by the pics above I might have seen it last night! I even had it in the Toucam on the lappy but thought it was a lousy image of Venus with blur on the top right which I put down to mis-collimation
And of course I didn't record the image as I thought 'Yuk, what a terrible Venus'.
It's quite a few degrees above the sun, initially I was looking too low, SNP shows it at around 7 degrees above the sun (tonight) if that helps. Tomorrow night it should be around 9 degrees above the sun (i.e. horizon at sunset.) and standing almost vertically.
See added marker. Tonight P1 was nearly 7 degrees above the Sun. Given the Sun is about 0.5 degrees across, that makes it about 14 Sun-diameters above the Sun.
Heres tonights effort, taken from the Newcastle Astronomicals observing site at Shortland, Newcastle.
First one is with Berts 300mm f2.8 lens, wires of radio towers present, with unmodded 350D,
2nd is cropped with modded 350D with 6 inch f3.6 schmidt Newtownian, "Cometracker" gee what an ironic name, it was doing just that hehehe.
Both are several images stacked and contrast enhanced. No tracking though, exposures round the 1/100th sec mark. Iris used to align images on the comet.
Haze and cloud present.
Comet has a wide slightly curved tail as it loops round the Sun, not the long skinny one the N hemishere people got pre-perehelion.
Comet still readily visible at midday in 10 inch scope, way brighter then mercury.
Scott
See added marker. Tonight P1 was nearly 7 degrees above the Sun. Given the Sun is about 0.5 degrees across, that makes it about 14 Sun-diameters above the Sun.
here are some more shots, did a Scott alder and stacked a few consecutive shots (only took a few) colour not right, well looks crappy but look at that tail!!!!
WOW! fantastic images -just beautiful
i only had my new canon 50 mm f 1.4, on my 350d, first time i used it - damn that thing fricken fast - i had to keep iso right down to stop it overexposing (didnt use manual mode properly -been a while since i took aphoto - got brain ache from it
anyway heres a widefield with solar limb still above horizon - and comet easily visible in shot - i roughly/quickly enhanced area where comet is behind wire to bring it right out without blowing it up
anyway heres a widefield with solar limb still above horizon - and comet easily visible in shot - i roughly/quickly enhanced area where comet is behind wire to bring it right out without blowing it up
Thanks Kearn, that pic gives great perspective and scale as to where it is, thanks.
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