Well last night managed to get my first real view of this comet. The northern sky was pretty grotty really, but managed to spot it in Perseus with 10x50 binoculars without too much trouble.
Tried to image it widefield with the Canon 300D and 50mm lens. First few images were good, but must have knocked the lens as the focus was way off on the 7th onwards. Grrrrrr...
Here is a combined stack of 6x8s at f/2 and iso 1600. Processed in IRIS, with synthetic background gradient removal. Not too harse, as you can see. Hopefully the pic looks fairly natural.
Notice the tail is about 1.25 degrees long, and there is a hint of a second tail too.
Just for the record - taken on 2010 June 16 at 00:50UT.
Glad you got to see it! I like it's "phantom" tails too!
ReplyDeleteNICE photo of the comet, great photography!!
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