After several days of clouds and rain, the forecast for this afternoon
looked promising, I managed to leave work early and be home before 5PM. I'd
got the equipment ready the night before. Initially I couldn't find the
comet as it was hidden by a small cloud on the horizon, after it appeared I
was amazed how much brighter it was compared to when I last saw it on
Saturday night. Easily naked eye in the twilight sky and the tail was
obvious as well. In my 9 x 63 binoculars the tail was about 2.5 degrees
long. The image is again with my A2, set at full zoom (200mm) with a 2 sec
exposure at f6.3 and with a polarizing filter, to try and darken the
background a little, but it isn't that successful being so close to the sun.
This is one of the best of the images I took, I set the camera to full
manual and locked the trigger, occasionally adjusting f ratio or exposure
time and took a total of 112 pictures in the 20 minutes or so.

Regards

Azz

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