Comet Q2 Lovejoy with tail brightening
Taken by Maximilian Teodorescu on January 13, 2015 @
I was at a good darker sky location in the Comana Woods, Romania, just South of Bucharest.
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Date Taken: 2015:01:14 01:13:40
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Tonight, the tail of comet Lovejoy got a bit brighter. It is easily seen in the images above that almost half of the main tail is much brighter compared to the days before. It stretches quite a long distance beneath the Pleiades, and in a few days, when the comet will get even closer to M45, the tail just might reach all the way to this open cluster, in dark sky conditions. That is a good photographic opportunity.
Equipment: TS 65Q APO Refractor (D=60mm, F/6.5) with Canon 550D at ISO 800 and 1600, 15x250sec for comet image, and Sigma 50mm Macro lens at F/4 with Canon 550D at ISO800, 9x240sec for wide field image.
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