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Nice shot too. I notice the tail appears to be blowing away from solar winds. I've sent mine to my friends (well ex workmates) out at tidbinbilla tracking station to see if it is the solar winds. I think Canberra had a perfect night for viewing. Definately not dim.

I'll post a couple of mine now of course its in the other thread too, but this is now the Canberra comet thread :-)

Plus i have a crop of the comet head. FA*200 f2.8 + 2x teleconvertor.



And the standard comet shot



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justin23 said:
Nice shot too. I notice the tail appears to be blowing away from
solar winds. I've sent mine to my friends (well ex workmates) out
at tidbinbilla tracking station to see if it is the solar winds. I
think Canberra had a perfect night for viewing. Definately not dim.

I'll post a couple of mine now of course its in the other thread
too, but this is now the Canberra comet thread :-)

Plus i have a crop of the comet head. FA*200 f2.8 + 2x teleconvertor.



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Justin,

Remarkable shot of the head of the comet, especially considering you did not really use a scope. I have to ask if the features you show were really accurate, or were they possibly the result of some camera movement? Did you use tracking? (no insult intended, just very surprised to see how massive the comet appears to be!)

thanks for sharing, and thanks to all the others as well. I live in the northern hemisphere, and envy you folks down under!

Eilert
 
The tail is so long, the top of it is actually visible above the horizon in the northern hemisphere.

http://www.spaceweather.com/comets/mcnaught/19jan07/westlake1_strip.jpg

Caption: Dan Laszlo of the Northern Colorado Astronomical Society has seen the streamers several times and he offers this advice: "Find the darkest sky you can and look west between one and two hours after sunset. A site where you can see zodiacal light would be best."

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Awesome everyone, I will have to try some longer exposures now, great effects, maybe also throw on a 1.4x or 2x converter.

Cheers.

Pete Dee

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Can this bee scene in New England in the US? what would be the best time. I think not if you guys on the other side of the planet have these shots. Just curious.
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This shot of the head also shows several pieces (I think).



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I set up the tripod in the back yard last night and got a few shots.

This is a multiple exposure on the K10D with each shot timed (high tech method, counting one one thousand, two one thousand :)) to be 60 seconds apart. The camera was not touched between shots. 600mm mirror lens



And the rest are wider angle to show how visible the comet was in the sky and to capture the amazing, sweeping tail.





 
Well i originally thought that, however it was tripod mounted and only a 2.5 sec exposure with a FA*200 f2.8 and 2x teleconvertor and a cable release.

Looking at shots where the camera moved the comet head blurs into a bright ball. I use to work for NASA in Australia so i've sent it to contacts to verify i did get a nice shot of the comet head. Also i noticed another shot of the comet head lposted on here ook similar to mine.

Also I have a shot of Venus at the same setup and Venus is quite large.

Similarly i've done Jupiter and it appears as several pixels wide and biigger than stars. I'm waiting for Mars, as apparently its the best.

Now if only i had a FA*600 ;-) or a telescope setup!

Eilert Ofstead wrote:


Eilert Ofstead said:
Justin,
Remarkable shot of the head of the comet, especially considering
you did not really use a scope. I have to ask if the features you
show were really accurate, or were they possibly the result of some
camera movement? Did you use tracking? (no insult intended, just
very surprised to see how massive the comet appears to be!)

thanks for sharing, and thanks to all the others as well. I live
in the northern hemisphere, and envy you folks down under!

Eilert
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Nice i wonder what yours looks at in 100% crop.
Comets are never round which surprises alot of people.

This thread has some amazing comet pictures.
Given the brightness last night i'm hoping we will see it for a few more nights.
Pete Dee said:
This shot of the head also shows several pieces (I think).



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