Comet 17P / Holmes
DaddyO
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I find celestial photography pretty cool, especially when there is something
interesting going on somewhere in the heavens that my camera can capture.
Meteor showers, comets, aurora displays, et...
Anywho, theres a cool comet to be seen in the constellation Perseus.
It can be seen naked eye pretty easily under dark skys if you can find dark enough evening skies.
Complete info (finder sky charts) and other shots can be seen at spaceweather.com.
I managed to grab these two on Shooting Date 11/8/2007 9:15:20 PM.
Not as high end as many of the shots to be seen at spaceweather but
the what the hay. I had fun trying.
Michael
17.0 - 50.0 mm f2.8 lens @ 47mm, f3.2, ISO1600 for 10 seconds,
manual focus (@ infinity) & exposure, tripod mounted. Canon EOS 30D.
Yeah, its the little fuzz ball. :wink
Lens EF70-200mm f/2.8L USM @ f2.8 & 200mm, ISO 1600 for 5 seconds,
manual focus (@ infinity) & exposure, tripod mounted. Canon EOS 30D.
interesting going on somewhere in the heavens that my camera can capture.
Meteor showers, comets, aurora displays, et...
Anywho, theres a cool comet to be seen in the constellation Perseus.
It can be seen naked eye pretty easily under dark skys if you can find dark enough evening skies.
Complete info (finder sky charts) and other shots can be seen at spaceweather.com.
I managed to grab these two on Shooting Date 11/8/2007 9:15:20 PM.
Not as high end as many of the shots to be seen at spaceweather but
the what the hay. I had fun trying.
Michael17.0 - 50.0 mm f2.8 lens @ 47mm, f3.2, ISO1600 for 10 seconds,
manual focus (@ infinity) & exposure, tripod mounted. Canon EOS 30D.
Yeah, its the little fuzz ball. :wink
Lens EF70-200mm f/2.8L USM @ f2.8 & 200mm, ISO 1600 for 5 seconds,
manual focus (@ infinity) & exposure, tripod mounted. Canon EOS 30D.
Michael
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How did you even know it was in the sky ???
It looks pretty tiny to me, I wouldn't have noticed it
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Turns out the small fuzzball is way much larger than I had any clue of.
Impressive!
http://www.spaceweather.com/comets/holmes/07nov07/Kurt-Allen-Fisher1.jpg
www.spaceweather.com sends out free alerts via email or phone to those
who just gotta know whats going on. Especially useful if there might be
a chance of aurora in your area. Fairly rare down our way but it does happen
often enough to want a heads up. Halfway down their page on the left you
will see a link called Current Auroral Oval: That site watches both poles for
activity.
Several years back I was smitten by the bug to get a pro class aurora shot.
So far I have failed to do that but it wasn't for lack of trying.
Heres what I did get when I knew so little.
http://www.quick-silver.net/nightsky/aurora/aurora.html
The "W" is a pretty easy constellation to spot in the northern hemisphere, do you folks down there see it as well?
a telescope. Of course if you can hang your camera on a telescope the WOW
factor goes way up fast. Since my Canon G2 gave up the ghost I am no
longer able to take more proper photos through my scope. Dang it.
Michael
It is from the city of Boise's "light dome". That would be the light from any
city to goes up and obscures the night sky stars. Michael
I didn't think I'd find any astro stuff on this forum, but here it is
Good job catching the comet. I like the second frame, you've got the shape and structure down well. Did you consider stacking for noise control?
I tried shooting Holmes about a week ago, but it was too windy, the whole support was shaking. It was pretty through my telescope though. And now it's constantly cloudy...
http://pyryekholm.kuvat.fi/
I agree..very nice daddo
I will have to see if its visible in the southern hemisphere now. Ive got 2 comet photos on my site & i must admit..its pretty addictive from the first one.
There is the occasional astro photography shot around here. Just did a search
dgrin forums query astro photography. Several hits. Now to check whats
under star trails. Know theres stuff there also as I have already seen some
nice shots around.
Never even considered "stacking" up shots. Know that folks are doing it with
stunning results, I've just never tried it.
Sorry to hear your under cloud cover just now. We are too (rain). I was going
to try a few shots for stacking attempt.
I've went back and checked out how bad the noise was once again. Here is
whats there at 100% actual image cropped tight.
Not bad noise really but it is there for sure. Especially color noise.
The resolution considering the lens et... is I think excellent.
Then a quick fix in Lightroom. The first two shots this thread were "fixed"
in photoshop. Lightroom did the fix faster and probably better.
Checked out your comet Mcnaught pics. You got awesome results there.
We had no such spectacular display here. When I tried for it the comet was
going down with the sun and fairly small. Its presence could barely be seen
naked eye as its coloring matched the setting suns just off the horizon.
Happens that way time to time. :cry
I was there but the photo wasn't. Thats me whinning.
your side of the globe.
http://www.spaceweather.com/comets/gallery_mcnaught_page21.php
I've had the same thing happen submitting to spaceweather.com. But thats
ok. A few did make it. No bid deal.
I think that the webmaster there Dr. Tony Phillips.
is nearly a one man show and is stretched a little thin.
I doubt I'll bother with sending my 17P/Holmes photo. They have enough
really good shots already.
Took more shots of 17P lastnight. Near zenith this time.
Seems f2.8 might be asking too much
of the lens and I found focus issues at infinity. The sweet spot there is a
fine line. Like Shay was saying, review in LCD before committing.