McNaught's Comet

[Timo]

Just sitting on my computer, and here my dad call my name. I ran downstairs and look out the window, and see this!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/Timo12/CDSC07881.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/Timo12/cDSC07886.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/Timo12/cDSC07885.jpg
(Slipped with the camera a tad, sorry)
Both time delay shots.
McNaught's Comet, the brightest comet to be seen from New Zealand for 100 years! Should be seen in the south-west skies of New Zealand for the next few weeks!
Unfortuneatly for you Australians, it can be almost mistaken for a plane D=
http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2007/01/16/cometplane.jpg

Large (3072x2304, 4:3) images are avaliable if anyone wants them

[rossmum]

Damn, nice.

I want to see it D: But being between Newcastle and Sydney... light pollution (not to mention the other sorts) much?

[Reaper Man]

:O Awesome photo. <3.

[n00b1n8R]

rep for you my good man =D

[Emmzee]

Not nearly as good as 2003 Leonid Meteor shower.

[TeeKup]

Beautiful photo Timo. :)

[Dole]

Those are damn good pictres. Makes me wish I had a camera readily available for things like this.

[Timo]

Since it's around for the next few weeks, hopefully I can get some clear nights between now and then, hopefully I can get some more photos :)

[Hurrvish]

that is awesome, ive never seen a real comet with my eyes before :(
great photo!

[An Emu]

wow those photos are really amazing! nice job!

[Varmint260]

I've seen one comet before, less than ten years ago, but I cannot be any more specific. The only thing in space I normally see is the International Space Station (it's a bit distinctive, no?). Those pictures, though... they are so awesome I almost have difficulty believin' in them. They'd make good desktops, yeah?

[Timo]

Clear but a bit cloudy over the horizon tonight, hopefully I can get some more pics.


Edit: Varmint, if you can give me your desktop res I can resize one of the three pics for you.
Editit: Well unfortuneatly the cloud has rolled in over the horizon in the past half an hour, so it doesn't look like i'll be taking any photos tonight. Sorry guys!

[Timo]

The tail on the comet is insanely long! Tonight wasn't very promising, it was alot dimmer than last night, and was alot more cloudy.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/Timo12/DSC07892.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/Timo12/DSC07891.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/Timo12/DSC07888.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/Timo12/DSC07887.jpg

To give you a bit of perspective on how big the tail on this thing was, I outlined what you could see just with the naked eye.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/Timo12/bad.jpg

[mech]

who poked a hole in the sky >:I

[Varmint260]

Edit: Varmint, if you can give me your desktop res I can resize one of the three pics for you.


Actually, my desktop res is 1024X768. These pictures are just fine the way they are, thanks! It sucks having a 6yr-old Dell monitor with max res 1024X768, but it's what I have to work with.

[Pooky]

You know you're a gamer when you see the shiny lights in the background and the first thing you think is "omg, HDR"

[n00b1n8R]

rotflol :D

what about "z0mg dude, look at teh grass texture!!1"
n00b out

[Timo]

It's getting pretty dim now, i'm having to up the ISO and that subsequently makes the photos alot noisier. :-(
http://xs311.xs.to/xs311/07041/CDSC07914.JPG (http://xs.to)

http://xs311.xs.to/xs311/07041/CDSC07917.JPG (http://xs.to)

http://xs311.xs.to/xs311/07041/CDSC07919.JPG (http://xs.to)

[rossmum]

Prettyful. :3

Nice photos.

[Pooky]

OMFG, grain filters

[ExAm]

I've seen two comets in my lifetime, and that's probably all the comets I'm going to see, since both of them have a cycle of a few hundred years :P

I've seen Hale Bopp once, when I was very young, and Haley's Comet a few years later.