Lovejoy fading 27/12/2011.

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Hi,

I was lucky to have very clear skies to image lovejoy. It certainly haas faded and the nucleus seems less intense, almost tranperant.

The image is a single shot.

Canon 1100D - lens at 27mm - F/4 - ISO 800. - 5 minute exposure.

I manged to trace it out to 31 deg.

Cheers,

Justin.

[Paul Haese]

Very nice image and deserves a lot of comments. I like the colour.

[shelltree (Shelley)]

Gorgeous work Justin, this is just spectacular! Really shows the size of the tail well

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

That tail seems to go on forever!!
Lovely deep image, thanks.

[dpastern (Dave Pastern)]

Cracking image!

Dave

[Quark (Trevor)]

What a corker of an image Justin, very well done and how good does the Coal Sack look as well as the comet.

Superb.
Regards
Trevor

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

Beaut image Justin. Very deep.

[Osirisra (Ken)]

very nice! I tried to take the same kind of deep shot this morning but to no avail, the clouds had other ideas.

[michael_sa]

Very nicely captured. Well done.

Michael.

[Matt Wastell (Matt)]

Fantastic Justin! Although fading you have an impressive image there!

[SkyViking (Rolf)]

Great shot, and amazing to see how much it has faded already. Thanks for the view.

[naskies (Dave)]

Fantastic! The longer/tracked exposure really brings out the rich detail and colour, doesn't it?

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Hi,

Thanks for the comments.

I've had my Canon DSLR for 2 months now, and it's been a steep learning curve. But the fact eveyone is imaging the same object at the moment makes it a bit easier to see what can be achieved.

Thanks,

Justin.