#261  
Old 19-01-2007, 12:18 PM
Garyh's Avatar
Garyh
Amongst the stars

Garyh is offline
 
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Glen Innes, N.S.W.
Posts: 2,887
Hi again everyone,
Heres my small effort to the millions of images I reckon that have been taken of this comet..
That Graham Palmer shot is fantasic hey....
First one with my televue genesis...about 2 sec on iso 100 and the second wide angle shot with 135mm @f/4.5 .6sec iso 100...
Cloud bank down low so had to image before it got too low..
Cheers and happy comet spotting tonight!!
Gary
Attached Thumbnails
Click for full-size image (mcnaught-genesis-2.jpg)
99.4 KB255 views
Click for full-size image (mcnaught-135.jpg)
102.2 KB184 views
Reply With Quote
  #262  
Old 19-01-2007, 12:27 PM
rogerg's Avatar
rogerg (Roger)
Registered User

rogerg is offline
 
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Perth, Western Australia
Posts: 4,563
Lots of nice shots. I like the cloud in front of several..
Reply With Quote
  #263  
Old 19-01-2007, 12:41 PM
fringe_dweller's Avatar
fringe_dweller
on the highway to Hell

fringe_dweller is offline
 
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Adelaide
Posts: 2,623
you guys i cant keep scraping my jaw of the floor like this! i think it has blisters now!?
Reply With Quote
  #264  
Old 19-01-2007, 01:18 PM
centauri
Registered User

centauri is offline
 
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Karratha, Western Australia
Posts: 119
Finally

Well here are the best of whats on offer up here in NW Australia.
The clouds finally opened up but the dust and haze was still VERY bad.
Oh well, stuff happens!
Attached Thumbnails
Click for full-size image (IMG_9480_filtered-800.jpg)
91.0 KB82 views
Click for full-size image (IMG_9491_filtered-800.jpg)
98.6 KB99 views
Reply With Quote
  #265  
Old 19-01-2007, 05:46 PM
maksutover's Avatar
maksutover
Registered User

maksutover is offline
 
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: sydney
Posts: 165
Hi all
ive been busy with work for some days but the images are AMAZING !!!!!!!!!!!
Tell me is the comet much easier to spot now that its heading into darker skies? Is it worth using a telescope now???

Cheers. and keep up these phenomenal images!
Reply With Quote
  #266  
Old 19-01-2007, 06:06 PM
MrB's Avatar
MrB (Simon)
Old Man Yells at Cloud

MrB is offline
 
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Rockingham WA
Posts: 3,435
Yeah it is much easier to spot. And the best bit, its setting later
It may be dimming in magnitude, but to my eyes its getting brighter. (relative, as it moves into darker skies).
Reply With Quote
  #267  
Old 19-01-2007, 07:56 PM
andrew's Avatar
andrew
Registered User

andrew is offline
 
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 95
Second contribution from me, although from the same batch of photos taken on Sunday night. Here 327kb

Taken with 400D, without the scope. Looking to use the scope at the next opportunity we have down in Melbourne..
Reply With Quote
  #268  
Old 19-01-2007, 08:06 PM
DaveO's Avatar
DaveO (David)
In Search of Photons

DaveO is offline
 
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Brisbane, QLD
Posts: 285
These images have been fantastic.

I don't own a DSLR yet, but a colleague's partner (Garth Wimbush) snapped this image from Brisbane yesterday after the clouds finally cleared.

Garth used a Canon ESO 350D.
Attached Thumbnails
Click for full-size image (img_1593c.jpg)
106.3 KB149 views
Reply With Quote
  #269  
Old 19-01-2007, 09:24 PM
CometGuy's Avatar
CometGuy
Registered User

CometGuy is offline
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Brisbane
Posts: 942
Very nice David, Garths photo it is very similiar to the naked eye view of the comet.

Terry
Reply With Quote
  #270  
Old 19-01-2007, 10:43 PM
dcnicholls's Avatar
dcnicholls
Registered User

dcnicholls is offline
 
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Canberra, Oz.
Posts: 129
http://msowww.anu.edu.au/~rmn/C2006P1.htm

The definitive images from the man himself. Exquisite.

DN
Reply With Quote
  #271  
Old 19-01-2007, 10:54 PM
earthlight's Avatar
earthlight (Anne-Louise)
Registered User

earthlight is offline
 
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Acacia Ridge, QLD
Posts: 160
Wow such great images!

Here's my attempt tonight, clouds weren't so forgiving.

Click image for larger version

Name:	Comet-McNaught-159_2w.jpg
Views:	92
Size:	29.9 KB
ID:	22190 Click image for larger version

Name:	Comet-McNaught-168_2w.jpg
Views:	80
Size:	41.8 KB
ID:	22189

Taken 19:43, a 10 or so minutes after we lost it and we could still see the tail naked eye. I've really bumped this up to clearly show it. Just amazing. We were sitting under a street light!
Click image for larger version

Name:	Comet-McNaught-216_2-last-o.jpg
Views:	109
Size:	125.1 KB
ID:	22191

___________________________________ ______________________
earthlight
Reply With Quote
  #272  
Old 19-01-2007, 11:46 PM
Qakka
a GSTAR nut

Qakka is offline
 
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 11
G'day all,
Had a spectacular view of the comet this evening from Mudgee.
Tail was about 20 degrees long.
Attached image taken with GSTAR-EX camera, 8mm lens and RGB filters
Hope everyone got to see similar to this.
Cheers, Qakka
Attached Thumbnails
Click for full-size image (2006p1-lrgb-8mm-20070119.jpg)
131.8 KB478 views
Reply With Quote
  #273  
Old 20-01-2007, 12:04 AM
beren
Registered User

beren is offline
 
Join Date: Oct 2004
Posts: 2,810
Fantastic images everyone

Gorgeous view of the comet tonight in the suburbs of Perth as the sky got darker the tail really stood out , wish my pics captured it better
Attached Thumbnails
Click for full-size image (perth-cm1 (Medium).jpg)
76.8 KB104 views
Click for full-size image (perth-cm4 (Medium).jpg)
97.3 KB81 views
Click for full-size image (perth-cm3 (Medium).jpg)
124.4 KB137 views
Reply With Quote
  #274  
Old 20-01-2007, 03:13 AM
IanW
Pedantic dinosaur rider

IanW is offline
 
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Perth WA
Posts: 99
3 more shots from Perth, This time taken from near the narrows looking towards Fremantle on Friday evening.

Wind was fair, at around 20kts.

Nikon D2X, 80-200/2.8 AFS Nikkor @ 80mm f2.8, ISO 800, exp times 2, 2.5 seconds. No adjustments made in PhotoShop except for slight cropping.

http://www.arach.net.au/~iwallis/2006P1/2006P1-4.jpg
http://www.arach.net.au/~iwallis/2006P1/2006P1-5.jpg
http://www.arach.net.au/~iwallis/2006P1/2006P1-6.jpg

Ian
Reply With Quote
  #275  
Old 20-01-2007, 06:04 AM
CoombellKid
Registered User

CoombellKid is offline
 
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 2,590
Hey folks,

Excellent images everybody.

Well not the best image on the block, But I finally manged to nab it in
it's full splender last night. Was thinking for a while there I was going
have to waiting until it turn back into a telescopic object.

I was an easy naked eye object, looked awesome through my 20x80's

The image is a cropped version of the original, no other processing

regards,CS
Attached Thumbnails
Click for full-size image (comet_mcnaught_190107.jpg)
55.7 KB105 views
Reply With Quote
  #276  
Old 20-01-2007, 07:47 AM
Garyh's Avatar
Garyh
Amongst the stars

Garyh is offline
 
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Glen Innes, N.S.W.
Posts: 2,887
Hi again everyone,
What a night here!!! Very clear and the first night with a cloud free horizon....
That dusty tail is going bigger every night. Left the telescope and just used the standard lense and my 135mm telephoto..
Both exposures about 15 sec iso 400. some levels and brightness/contrast in Ps. First with standard lense and the next with 135mm..
Might have to go to a wideangle lense if this comet gets more of a trail!!!
Wonder when we will see a ion trail?...fingers crossed for tonight....
Cheers Gary...
Attached Thumbnails
Click for full-size image (mcnaught55mm.jpg)
142.3 KB457 views
Click for full-size image (mcnaught135-19th.jpg)
114.0 KB263 views
Reply With Quote
  #277  
Old 20-01-2007, 08:38 AM
Grinz's Avatar
Grinz
Registered User

Grinz is offline
 
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Cape Town South Africa
Posts: 67
Gary, that is stupendous.

This comet and the pictures I see here have me running out of superlatives.

I don't have the skills or equipment to take the same kind of quality shot, but I'll add two that I took tonight here from Table Bay in Cape Town. VERY windy but clear evening. The coma shot was taken through the eyepiece of an 8" Meade SC with a simple Kodak CX7530; the other one with the same camera on a tripod - but the wind made things really difficult.
Attached Thumbnails
Click for full-size image (McNaught 19 Jan 01.sm.jpg)
137.5 KB123 views
Click for full-size image (100_1786.JPG)
128.6 KB100 views
Reply With Quote
  #278  
Old 20-01-2007, 09:00 AM
Garyh's Avatar
Garyh
Amongst the stars

Garyh is offline
 
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Glen Innes, N.S.W.
Posts: 2,887
thanks Grinz! hope that wind settles down for you..be hard to get good exposures in a gale..all I had to deal with were mozzies for company...
Cheers Gary
Reply With Quote
  #279  
Old 20-01-2007, 09:04 AM
rogerg's Avatar
rogerg (Roger)
Registered User

rogerg is offline
 
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Perth, Western Australia
Posts: 4,563
Amazing stuff, this huge tail! I got it, but not as strong as some others due to light pollution.

http://www.rogergroom.com/rogergroom...m.jsp?Item=545

Heading off to dark skies tonight, might get some shots of the comet.
Reply With Quote
  #280  
Old 20-01-2007, 09:23 AM
Garyh's Avatar
Garyh
Amongst the stars

Garyh is offline
 
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Glen Innes, N.S.W.
Posts: 2,887
With all that light pollution it still shows through...amazing!!
But isn`t it a lovely backdrop...all I have here is bush!!!!
Reply With Quote
Reply

Bookmarks

Thread Tools
Rate This Thread
Rate This Thread:

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT +10. The time is now 06:23 PM.

Powered by vBulletin Version 3.8.7 | Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Advertisement
Bintel
Advertisement