Great picture Rob! What lens did you use? I drove out to Ivins last night about 8:30 and got a wonderful view through my 15 X 70 binos. I wish I would have had time to shoot through both my film and digital cameras but the temperature was reading 31 degrees. That's cold for St. George. The comet did look green and I saw a hint of a tail. The comet was almost directly overhead way above the light pollution from St. George. I think I love the winter milky way more than the summer milky way. Now the clouds have rolled in again but that comet was very bright last night. Thanks for the heads-up Patrick! Debbie
From: Rob Ratkowski <ratkwski@hawaii.rr.com> Date: 2005/01/07 Fri AM 10:45:43 MST To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Comet & M-45
Thanks Jim,
But I have a long way to go. I'm using a pro-sumer camera not designed for exposures longer that 30 sec. and w/a 10 min. exposure so much heat is generated, the CCD reads this as photons and the image is degraded. It was still fun to be out exposing and enjoying the cool (60) Hawaiian night. I'll try again tonite IF it doesn't rain as predicted.
Aloha Rob
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