The comet and M-45 are in the same field of view of my 11x80s. Looking good. I hope someone's getting a picture. Tom is looking for a good shot of the comet for Nova and all he's got so far is the yucky one I shot the other night. Patrick
Thanks Patrick, for the "heads up" (figuratively and literally)! I just looked at the comet for the first time thru my Bear 15x70's binos and the image is amazing!!! At this power, it looked larger than the full moon! Definite green glow. Skyglow too bright in West Jordan to discern the tail, but the nucleus was pronounced. It is almost directly overhead at 9:25 MST and slightly SW of M45. Thanks again, Patrick for letting us know in such a timely fashion - as you always do. If anyone gets pictures, I hope they will publish here. Thanhs and clear skies, Jim Stitley --- Patrick Wiggins <paw@trilobyte.net> wrote:
The comet and M-45 are in the same field of view of my 11x80s.
Looking good.
I hope someone's getting a picture. Tom is looking for a good shot of the comet for Nova and all he's got so far is the yucky one I shot the other night.
Patrick
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I posted an unprocessed image of the Pleiades and C.Macholtz taken from my deck here in Pukalani. Haleakala is blowing at 30 mph and our trip up last night was good but too windy for any imaging. http://www.utahastronomy.com/rob/eC_Macholtz2 aloha Rob
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I posted an unprocessed image of the Pleiades and C.Macholtz taken from my deck here in Pukalani. Haleakala is blowing at 30 mph and our trip up last night was good but too windy for any imaging.
Nice picture, Rob. What's say you email a B&W copy of the image to Nova editor Tom Sevcik at sfv1ts@hotmail.com? Hopefully he'll use it instead of the awful shot I got the other night. Your picture has me thinking that a deeper image would show a tail long enough such that by tonight (Friday) the tail will cross M-45. *That* would be a neat picture. If only the weather will cooperate. Patrick
Hi Patrick I'll send Tom the image in B+W and IF the weather cooperates I'll shoot again tomorrow night. I just went out to cover the tripod and drive and it's cloudy, we're to get more rain this weekend. Oh well ......... Aloha Rob
Great Photo, Rob! Exactly as I saw it last night, but you had more tail definition than my aging eyes could resolve. Jim Stitley Rob Ratkowski <ratkwski@hawaii.rr.com> wrote: I posted an unprocessed image of the Pleiades and C.Macholtz taken from my deck here in Pukalani. Haleakala is blowing at 30 mph and our trip up last night was good but too windy for any imaging. http://www.utahastronomy.com/rob/eC_Macholtz2 aloha Rob _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.utahastronomy.com the Perfect You "inside and out" Insightful Seminars, Workshops & Coaching Increase SelfAwareness - Know Who You Are...REALLY! Discover the NEW "Inner You" http://www.theperfectyou.us
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
Great shot, Rob! -- Yokwe Juk, Joe
I posted an unprocessed image of the Pleiades and C.Macholtz taken from my deck here in Pukalani. Haleakala is blowing at 30 mph and our trip up last night was good but too windy for any imaging.
http://www.utahastronomy.com/rob/eC_Macholtz2
aloha Rob
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