No worries Thanks Ken,i like the reality shots just as much as the close-ups ) its a tiny weeny bit blurry, I fixed that soon after that, got a hundred, bit hard to choose right now field of view in that shot would (cant find my chart - but i think for the 350d equivalent of an 80mm film, so maybe 30 degrees wide?
forgot details too! 1/800 sec at f 6.3 (was in full auto) 400 iso
Ken,
you probably already know this but, if you look on the back cover of Astronomy 2007, it gives you a ruler to measure degrees. You just need to hold the book up 20" in front of you to read off it.
Handy.
Ken,
you probably already know this but, if you look on the back cover of Astronomy 2007, it gives you a ruler to measure degrees. You just need to hold the book up 20" in front of you to read off it.
Handy.
OK, here's a couple of shots from 14th and 15th. Not great, but something! Unprocessed too, I briefly tried stacking them but don't really have time right now.
here's another from tonight - it has Venus as well as p1 in it - i just enhanced it ridiculously to highlight their individual brightness in the hope of a comparson of sorts re current magnitude - that mothers head looked like it was gonna explode - a furious magnesium bomb!!! like it had gigantism of the nucleus
details: single shot 1/250 sec f 3.5 iso 200
EDIT: Venus being the bright object in the the mid-top right, and mcnaught is circled. nothing was intefering with brightness of Venus at the time.
Last edited by fringe_dweller; 16-01-2007 at 01:54 AM.
Hi - asked this question in the discussion thread too - was wondering whether anyone had luck in capturing Mercury and McNaught yesterday (14 Jan)? Would have needed some pretty good equipment & expertise since the planet is so much dimmer than the comet is at the moment... but I've been looking all over the Net in the hope that someone did capture it.
I suspect, Mike, that one of those Entrance shots may win you some gear at SPSP15! I prefer the last in the sequence, balancing aesthetic and astronomical considerations.
Well comet Mc Naught put on a good show in Adelaide last night , at times it looked brighter than venus. Heres a couple of shots , btw great shots everyone
Here is an image that was quickly snapped from Gunderman down on the Hawksberry River. The first is the original. the following two are cropped.
Nikon D200, 80-200 ED
Hi all
Once again readily visible in daytime with the 10 inch scope, somewhat further from the Sun now, possibly a little fainter but still easy
Stack of 5x1000thsec shots with unmodded 300D, cropped and enhanced. Wide short tail rather then the long skinny one the northerners got pre-perihelion. taken at 1pm
Scott
Saw comet last night, but had to travel 60km to try to get away from bushfire smoke on W horizon (comet-chasers?!?). Great views, even though sky was still smokey, and McNaught disappeared into thick bank while the W sky was still quite bright. Got short AVI with NexImage through 4.5" f8 reflector, but lack of contrast was a real problem, meaning the Registax-processed image is not great.
Big clouds now building up, so tonight may be out for viewing here . Last night's image attached, for what it's worth. Some great images are being posted, and congratulations one and all!
I too love the images that scotts posting. The ones during the daytime look similar to comet hyokutaki (did i spell it right?) with its beautiful greenish glow.
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its a tiny weeny bit blurry, I fixed that soon after that, got a hundred, bit hard to choose right now 
field of view in that shot would (cant find my chart - but i think for the 350d equivalent of an 80mm film, so maybe 30 degrees wide?
