ASTRO: Comet2006 McNaught

From my paddock in Armidale NSW last night. A simple kodak point and shoot
digital camera on a tripod with a 4 sec exposure.

Terry Bohlsen

Hi Terry
Great shot..I wasn't so lucky up north we had clouds nearly every night.
Regards
Jerry
"Terry B" wrote in message
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From my paddock in Armidale NSW last night. A simple kodak point and shoot
digital camera on a tripod with a 4 sec exposure.

Terry Bohlsen

Beautiful image with the trees and sunset.

Stefan

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From my paddock in Armidale NSW last night. A simple kodak point and shoot
digital camera on a tripod with a 4 sec exposure.

Terry Bohlsen

That would be something to hang on the wall. Nice shot

Joe


"Terry B" wrote in message
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From my paddock in Armidale NSW last night. A simple kodak point and shoot
digital camera on a tripod with a 4 sec exposure.

Terry Bohlsen

"Terry B" wrote
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From my paddock in Armidale NSW last night. A simple kodak point and shoot
digital camera on a tripod with a 4 sec exposure.

Terry,

Wonderful picture! McNaught may prove to be the "Comet of the Century"!

George N

George Normandin wrote:
"Terry B" wrote
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From my paddock in Armidale NSW last night. A simple kodak point and shoot
digital camera on a tripod with a 4 sec exposure.


Terry,

Wonderful picture! McNaught may prove to be the "Comet of the Century"!

George N

With nearly 93 years to go I sure hope that's not the case. But since I
won't see all of it, I doubt I'll make it to 160 you may be right in my
case. Though I saw Ikeya Seki less than a degree from the sun naked
eye. Had to stand in the middle of a major downtown street using the
top corner of a 15 story office building to hide the sun to do it. Cop
wasn't very happy with me over that. Obviously not an astronomer. Tail
was short and at right angles to pointing away from the sun. It was
moving so fast around the sun it left the tail behind, literally showing
the direction it was moving. You see some of that in the huge curving
tail of McNaught as it went through a much more distant perihelion. I
missed most of it here, cloudy all but one evening. Then I had to stand
on heaving ice to see it. With the ice moving and groaning like some
monster while I stood over 40' of 32 degree water I wasn't very
comfortable and left after a big crack well before it was dark enough to
see more than a couple degrees of its tail. It was plenty thick to be
safe but the wind was 35 mph and really moving the ice more than this
guy liked!

Rick

"Jerry Gunnett" wrote in message
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Hi Terry
Great shot..I wasn't so lucky up north we had clouds nearly every night.
Regards
Jerry

I have been the same since Sat with clouds every night. I would like to try
again but I think the moon will become a problem.
Terry

"Terry B" wrote in message
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From my paddock in Armidale NSW last night. A simple kodak point and
shoot
digital camera on a tripod with a 4 sec exposure.

Terry Bohlsen